Hunting The Muse

Optimism

I have great faith in optimism as a philosophy, if only because it offers us the opportunity of self-fulfilling prophecy. - Arthur C. Clarke

There's something approaching self-proof or recursion in that quote. At the least, it's an optimistic quote.

Wow, here's another great one. They all come from this article:

But it is vital to remember that information – in the sense of raw data – is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight.