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I'm optimistic about the future.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.

I'm very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future.

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

I'm comfortable and confident about the future.

I am very excited about the future.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.