"Even an optimist like Frank Drake estimates that there would be no more than about in the galaxy, which means that the nearest one is likely to be about 1,000 light years away."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Therefore, you might suppose that to be a professional tech investor--one who bets huge in up markets and coolly bails out at the start of down markets--well, such a superman must be more than an optimist and futurist.

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You have to be something of an optimist to believe that governments which can tax more easily will also tax more lightly.

ECONOMIST: Mario Monti, Europe��s taxman-in-chief

He is an optimist and believes that "Kenyans will emerge from these elections more united".

BBC: Jane Waruguru