What is the difference between an optimist and a pessimist?
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An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds. A pessimist believed we live in the best of all worlds. Not sure who I stole this one from.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Matthew Dennis wrote:
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
These flying bananas you refer to ... I have heard about people throwing rotten tomatoes at people they don't like, but get a similar effect from flinging bananas at them, I guess would require really rotten bananas.
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An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds. A pessimist believed we live in the best of all worlds. Not sure who I stole this one from.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
The pessimist: “It cannot get worse than this”. The optimist: “Yes, it can”.
Mircea
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An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds. A pessimist believed we live in the best of all worlds. Not sure who I stole this one from.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
An optimist invented the airplane. A pessimist invented the parachute.
>64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds. A pessimist believed we live in the best of all worlds. Not sure who I stole this one from.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
Matthew Dennis wrote:
An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds.
If this is the best of all worlds that's plenty of reason to become a pessimist X|
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An optimist invented the airplane. A pessimist invented the parachute.
>64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
Nice. :-D
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An optimist believes we live in the best of all worlds. A pessimist believed we live in the best of all worlds. Not sure who I stole this one from.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
An optimist believes that we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears that this is true. :-\
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Alternate second line: Yes, I'm afraid so. Another optimist/pessimist: Optimist: The bottle is still half full. Pessimist: It is half empty already. Optimist: Yes, but I am half full, too!
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The pessimist: “It cannot get worse than this”. The optimist: “Yes, it can”.
Mircea
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An optimist believes that we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears that this is true. :-\
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Optimist: The bottle is still half full. Pessimist: It is half empty already.
The engineer asks “Are we filling it or emptying it?”
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Optimist: The bottle is still half full. Pessimist: It is half empty already.
The engineer asks “Are we filling it or emptying it?”
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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If you put a quantum computer into a cage, will you then know if it has produced an answer?
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Optimist: The bottle is still half full. Pessimist: It is half empty already.
The engineer asks “Are we filling it or emptying it?”
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
YES. *THIS* That's been the gist of my reply to this question for about 30 years now. It never ceases to amuse me how bent out of shape some people get if you refuse to answer until they do. Seems to shut them up though when you talk about being precisely at the mid-point between work and home. At that stage, the question I've asked stops seeming so trivial :laugh:
