On the optimist vs. pessimist water glass, I like http://what-if.xkcd.com/6/ Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:13 PM, David Makin <makinmagic@tiscali.co.uk>wrote:
To a realist - the glass is always full (of something).
To an opportunist - the glass is a free drink while the rest argue.
On 26 Feb 2013, at 23:06, Tom Karzes wrote:
I always liked this one:
To a pessimist, the glass is half empty. To an optimist, the glass is half full. To an engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Tom
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