Quotes from Scott Adams

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Home is pretty utopian.

Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.

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'.

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

The ability to work hard and make sacrifices comes naturally to those who know exactly what they want.

Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed.

For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.

For most people, it's easy to be passionate about things that are working out, and that distorts our impression of the importance of passion. I've been involved in several dozen business ventures over the course of my life, and each one made me excited at the start. You might even call it passion.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

I'm not happy on vacation. In those rare times when I have three hours with no work I have to do, I'm terribly uncomfortable.

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.

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

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frightened of public speaking and can't imagine they might feel different as a result of training. Don't assume you know how much potential you have. Sometimes the only way to know what you can do is to test yourself.

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.

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, and religion.

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

I try to avoid giving advice.

Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.