Quotes About Scott Adams

I have an endless stream of suggestions coming in from readers who are in cubicles. That keeps me going.

Dogbert: Scientists have discovered the gene that makes some people love golf. Dilbert: How can they tell it's the golf gene? Dogbert: It's plaid and it lies.

You give anybody a billion dollars, and of course they are passionate. Passion is one of those things like willpower in that there's 'magical thinking' about it. You've got to be careful about 'magical thinking.'

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.

I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

Passion feels very democratic. It is the people's talent, available to all. It's also mostly bullshit.

I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.

Theory of Evolution (Summary) First, there were some amoebas. Deviant amoebas adapted better to the environment, thus becoming monkeys. Then came Total Quality Management.

Persistence is useful, but there's no point in being an idiot about it.

Trump ignores facts whenever they are inconvenient. I know you don't want to think this works in terms of persuasion. But it does. I want to be clear that I'm not expressing a preference for ignoring facts. I'm simply saying that a Master Persuader can do it and still come out ahead, no matter how many times the media points out the errors.

If you don't understand confirmation bias, you might think new information can change people's opinions. As a trained persuader, I know that isn't the case, at least when emotions are involved. People don't change opinions about emotional topics just because some information proved their opinion to be nonsense. Humans aren't wired that way.

When a decision involves lots of facts, and we have access to all the facts, we are more likely to hallucinate that we used our powers of reason to reach a decision. But when we recognize that we don't have all the facts, we hallucinate that we used our gut feeling to bridge the gap. In both cases we acted irrationally, and we tried to rationalize it to ourselves after the fact. That's how the Persuasion Filter sees it.

My experience, as odd as it sounds, is that I can change my food preferences by thinking of my body as a programmable robot as opposed to a fleshy bag full of magic.

Trump's talent stack is so strong that I believe he could make almost any basket of policies sound good to the public. I will go so far as to say that Trump could have run as a Democrat, embraced Bernie Sanders's entire platform, and won the election that way.

The start of the tweet generally contains contempt, mocking, or sarcasm. The second part of the tweet includes either an insult that seems too angry for the situation or a mischaracterization of your point as an absurd absolute.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. Dilbert newsletter 3.0, 1994 —Scott Adams

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.