Scott Adams Quotes
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It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
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If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
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As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.
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In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
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Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.
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Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
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I'm primarily just an investor.
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Priority-wise, it simply makes sense to take care of yourself before you start searching for a higher meaning. You aren't much good to anyone else if you're unhealthy, a financial burden, or an emotional basket case. Fix yourself before you turn outward. It's best for everyone.
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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
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We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
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He was tenser than Jesse Jackson on Father's Day.
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Crackpot is an excellent job because the expectations are so low. No one ever tells crackpots that they should be doing more.
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I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.
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Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.
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Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.
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Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.
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I believe in karma... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.
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Home is pretty utopian.
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Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first.
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
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For our purposes, let’s say a goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don’t sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, it’s a system. If you’re waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it’s a goal.
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Obviously there's not much options when you're a cartoonist - you pretty much either work at home or rent an office I guess, and working at home just seems easier.
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.
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'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.