SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional Update - night 1 <ot>

[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:44:47 -0500 Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:

> Consuming 0.5K bytes, Terence McCarthy blathered:
> > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:12:39 -0600
> > "Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I forgot the wink.  (I hope I'm not **that** cynical.)  :-)
> > 
> > Remember Ambrose Beirce (The Devil's Dictionary) " A cynic is a man
> > whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be."
> > 
> >  :-))
> 
> Indeed. Although I personally prefer Bierce's definition of
> optimist, "A proponent of the doctrine that black is white."
> 

And the classic (unknown origin):  "The optimist believes that we live in the
best of all possible worlds; the pessimist believes that this is true."

Or my favorite:
A man has two sons, an optimist and a pessimist.  For Christmas he gives the
pessimist a bright shiny new bicycle.  The pessimist scowls - it will probably
break or get stolen or I'll scrape my knee.  He gives the optimist a sack of
horse turds. The optomist grins from ear to ear - I know there's a pony here
somewhere.



-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.