Scott Adams Quotes - Page 9

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• Methods for predicting the future: 1) read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls . . . collectively known as "nutty methods;" 2) put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer . . . commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

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  Time, Tea Leaves, Tarot

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• Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

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  People, Decision, Talent

  Scott Adams (2011). “This Is the Part Where You Pretend to Add Value: A Dilbert Book”, p.98, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Everyone says there's a lack of leadership in the world these days. I think we should all be thankful, because the only reason for leadership is to convince people to do things that are either dangerous (like invading another country) or stupid (working extra hard without extra pay).

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  Country, Stupid, Thinking

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.446, Penguin

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• One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

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  Happiness, Fun, Optimistic

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• I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.

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  Thinking, People, Age

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• I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

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  Love, Valentines Day, Food

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• I try to avoid giving advice.

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  Giving, Advice, Trying

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• The children are our future. And that is why, ultimately, we're screwed unless we do something about it. If you haven't noticed, the children who are our future are good-looking, but they aren't all that bright. As dense as they might be, they will eventually notice that adults have spent all the money, spread disease, and turned the planet into a smoky, filthy ball of death. We're raising an entire generation of dumb, pissed-off kids who know where the handguns are kept. This is not a good recipe for a happy future.

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  Children, Future, Kids

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• I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'

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  Sometimes, Restaurants, Draws

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• Have you ever noticed that things that don’t kill you make you weaker? And great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill.” - Wally

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  Thinking, Office, Mind

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• It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.

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  Careers, Criticism

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• There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

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  Moral Behavior, Life Happens, Gray Area

  "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel". Book by Scott Adams, 2002.

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• A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.

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  Average, Investing, Schedules

  "How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big". Book by Scott Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2013.

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• My investments have been hurt.

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  Hurt, Investment, Been Hurt

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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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  Emotional, Risk, Financial

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• You might think the word "homemade" is just a word we use as a marketing ploy. But what you don't realize is that the staff sleeps here at night. If your tablecloth is wrinkled, that's why.

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  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.

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  Real, Book, Trends

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

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  Nice, People, Gloves

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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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  People, Corporations, Sense Of Humor

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• I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

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  Should, Working It, Hated

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• I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.

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  Years, Boss, Different

  "An Interview with the "Dilbert" Cartoonist Scott Adams" by Zachary Kanin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2008.

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• 'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

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  Jobs, Dilbert, Theme

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• Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

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  Children, Reason, Dilbert

  "'Dilbert' cartoonist Scott Adams draws feminist outrage" by Jeff Labrecque, www.ew.com. March 30, 2011.

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• As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing a conga line.

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  Funny, Humor, Cat

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• One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

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  Brain, Way, Tiny

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