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.
• My investments have been hurt.
• One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
• We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
• Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
• I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and…
• 'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
• For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
• If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
• Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
• Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
• Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating,…
• Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
• Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
• In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better…
• Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
• You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even…
• There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
• The best things in life are silly.

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