“I'm optimistic about the potential for AI to empower people and to help us address some of society's most pressing challenges.”— Eric Horvitz
“There is no physical or economic reason why human resourcefulness and enterprise cannot forever continue to respond to impending shortages and existing problems with new expedients that, after an adjustment period, leave us better off than before.”— Julian Lincoln Simon
“The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.”— Edward Albee
“I am an optimist. To those who claim that our country is ungovernable and is bound to break up, I say that they underestimate the inhabitants of Belgium.”— Albert II of Belgium