Scott Adams Quotes
Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.
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Learning how to be persuasive has been really crucial to my life both professionally and personally.
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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.
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I think baseball was really reality when I was a freshman in high school.
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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
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I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.
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Ratbert (as lab rat, to scientist): Doc, we have to talk. Every day you feed me over a hundred pounds of macaroni and cheese. At first I thought you were just being a good host. But lately I've been thinking it could be something far more sinister.
