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Ballons pop. People die. What can I do about it?
Aaron Eldreth
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While much is too strange to be believed,
Nothing is too strange to have happened.
- T. Hardy
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Realists are closet pessimists.
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Paul Watson wrote:
Realists are closet pessimists.
A cynic is a disappointed romantic.
Gavin Greig
"Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye."
Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.
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a disappointed romantic is something most people found interesting like Romeo and Juliet?
Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio
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No, Romeo & Juliet was a tragic validation of love, something most young people think of all too often. Then you grow up a bit and realise it does not have to be so tragic all the time 
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Then you grow up a bit and realise it does not have to be so tragic all the time
Well, life is getting too easy now and people start not to appreciate things around.
Sonork 100.41263:Anthony_Yio
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A romantic is someone who hopes to find ideals in the real world. A cynic doesn't believe those ideals are attainable. The cynic may share the same ideals as the romantic, and even aspire towards them, but is sufficiently bruised and worn by experience to be very pessimistic about them being attained.
They're not quite the same as optimism and pessimism, but you can see they may be closely related.
I thought it was mildly amusing that Paul, usually one of the more romantically inclined members of CodeProject, responded to Aaron's fatalist comment with a cynical comment which effectively reduced Aaron's "realism" to "pessimism".
Gavin Greig
"Haw, you're no deid," girned Charon. "Get aff ma boat or ah'll report ye."
Matthew Fitt - The Hoose O Haivers: The Twelve Trauchles O Heracles.
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I was being tongue in cheeck with my reply, we all enjoy a bit of poking-the-other-side
regards,
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
South Africa
Ian Darling wrote:
"and our loonies usually end up doing things like Monty Python."
Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Do you know what a pessimist is ? An experienced optimist !!!!
I voted pessimsit !
Jerome
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I am an Optimist but I am sure I will not remain like this for long. I shall soon be a Pessimist
I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe 
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Jerome Conus wrote:
Do you know what a pessimist is ? An experienced optimist !!!!
Rubbish! Total and complete rubbish!
A pessimist is a person that thinks the worst of a situation.
An optimist is a person who makes the best of any situation, no matter how bad it gets. An optimist is a person that turns a problem in to an opportunity.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
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Too much optimism of a boss makes his subordinates pessimistic.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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Mr.Prakash wrote:
Too much optimism of a boss makes his subordinates pessimistic
Sorry, but spending all day in an office that is 26ºC with no air-conditioning has addled my brain. What does this mean?
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Sorry, but spending all day in an office that is 26ºC with no air-conditioning has addled my brain. What does this mean?
Turn on the AC first.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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Mr.Prakash wrote:
Turn on the AC first
There is no Air Conditioning, that is why the office is 26+ºC.
What did the statement you made previously about optimistic bosses and pessimistic workers mean?
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
What did the statement you made previously about optimistic bosses and pessimistic workers mean?
What i meant was, bosses or Project Managers dont generally have the idea how complex a given task could be so he is optimistic that the task could be done in few days. but his subordinates know the complexity of the task and are pessimistic about the task getting over by the dead line.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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Then the "subordinates" are stupid for not correcting the boss's estimate and having a realistic deadline in place. If the "subordinates" did state that the boss's estimate was too short a period of time and the boss insists that it be done by his/her deadline then, like I've said before, it is how you deal with it that makes you an optimist or pessimist. An optimist would realise that he/she can get a better job else where (turning a problem into an opportunity), a pessimist will moan and grumble and get depressed, and maybe start drinking, and popping the happy pills, but as has been medically proven taking drugs for depression increases the risk of suicide.
Like I've said before: An optimist turns a problem in to an opportunity.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!
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Great Reply!
But this part was funny.
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
a pessimist will moan and grumble and get depressed, and maybe start drinking, and popping the happy pills, but as has been medically proven taking drugs for depression increases the risk of suicide.
I'll write a suicide note on a hundred dollar bill - Dire Straits
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Reality is True and it will happen whether you are a Optimistic or pesimistic.
Reality will show you that, your design is poor.
So go for realistic
Please feel free to contact.
Sreejith S S Nair - Bangalore
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sreejith ss nair wrote:
Reality will show you that, your design is poor
Unless one is actually really good at design.
sreejith ss nair wrote:
Reality is True and it will happen whether you are a Optimistic or pesimistic
This sounds like it is being diplomatically negative. What you appear to be saying is that it doesn't matter being optimistic or pessamistic because "reality" will always kick you down again. Reading the next line in your previous post seems to confirm this hypothesis.
Well, it depends on what you do with that truth.
A pessimistic person will just sigh and think "Well, I knew that was going to happen". Well, if you knew it was going to happen - why let it happen? That's not just pessimism - that's insanity.
An optimist will look at the situation and learn from it, they'll say "That's interesting. I now know how to do better".
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!
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Is that like Dr. Phil[^]?
BTW, you've been busy with the photography this weekend. I particularly like the bee on the flower. I've never seen one so close up before.
"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." --Zig Ziglar
The Second EuroCPian Event will be in Brussels on the 4th of September
Can't manage to P/Invoke that Win32 API in .NET? Why not do interop the wiki way!
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Is that like Dr. Phil[^]?
Not sure why, I can't view the site - maybe all the CP traffic killed it 
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
BTW, you've been busy with the photography this weekend. I particularly like the bee on the flower. I've never seen one so close up before
Thanks Colin - it was a superb weekend actually, consisting of early mornings, late nights and loads of hiking inbetween. Now I need a holiday to recover from the holiday
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog
Photography
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Unless one is actually really good at design.
Or, more to the point, unless you have a really good builder to implement the design. Some really great designs exist out there that have been completely fulblungered by the ones doing the actual coding.
Peace!
-=- James (Sonork:100.21837)
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Quite an overwhelming majority of Realists (if not take Engineers into account). That's nice, that's nice...
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