"You can change only what people know, not what they do."
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Scott Adams quotes (page 6 of 14)
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"I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get."
"I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet."
"And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing."
"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."
"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."
"Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own."
"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"
"No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot."
"Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight."
"Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors."
"Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions."
"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."
"I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes."
"The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol."
"Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion."
"I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake."
"For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson."
"On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary."
"When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater."