One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.
Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
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One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.