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What is the difference between an optimist and a pessimist?

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  • M Matthew Dennis

    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."

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    Sander Rossel
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    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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    • T theoldfool

      An optimist invented the airplane. A pessimist invented the parachute.

      >64 Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.

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      Nice. :-D

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      • M Matthew Dennis

        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."

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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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        • T trønderen

          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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          Quote:

          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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          • Mircea NeacsuM Mircea Neacsu

            The pessimist: “It cannot get worse than this”. The optimist: “Yes, it can”.

            Mircea

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            When it can't possibly get any worse, even the pessimist fails.

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            • D Daniel Pfeffer

              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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              trønderen
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              Daniel Pfeffer wrote:

              Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

              That is not the real issue. The question is whether you can get away with stating that two plus two make five.

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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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                The quantum computerist answers: Yes.

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                • D DRHuff

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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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                  • T trønderen

                    If you put a quantum computer into a cage, will you then know if it has produced an answer?

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                    DRHuff
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                    Only if the cat dies...

                    If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.

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                    • D DRHuff

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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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                      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:

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