Pangloss

The name Pangloss is derived from two Greek words signifying

Candide 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

In our view the $13bn market projections is of the "Pangloss" school of forecasting - assuming the best of all possible outcomes in the best of all possible worlds, and our scenarios tended to give an order of magnitude lower set of answers.

broadstuff Alan Patrick 2010

And it would be a Pangloss who said that the dangers have receded even now.

Notable & Quotable 2011

He was a modern Pangloss: "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."

Tony Schwartz: Happiness Is Overrated Tony Schwartz 2010

The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss.

Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his tutor, Pangloss.

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

He was a modern Pangloss: "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."

Tony Schwartz: Happiness Is Overrated Tony Schwartz 2010

Louise Pangloss, called Lulu, is a seventeen year old girl with chromosomal primary amenorrhea.

Xombies: Apocalypse Blues (Avoid This Like the Plague) « A Working Title 2009

That rarely happens here, though Larry Yando, who plays Pangloss, the idiotically optimistic philosopher who in spite of countless catastrophes persists in believing that this is "the best of all possible words," gives a crisp, sardonic and musically impeccable performance.

Taking Another Shot at 'Candide' Terry Teachout 2010

Pangloss, have you read Stephen Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series?

HBO Greenlights Fantasy Television Pilot for George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones | /Film 2008