Scott Adams
Scott Adams
Scott Raymond Adamsis an American cartoonist, creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth8 June 1957
CityWindham, NY
CountryUnited States of America
people dollars cost
Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
smart differences people
People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference is that we're idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
silly technology interesting
Some people fear that technology will become more engaging than live human interactions. That's silly; technology is already way more interesting than other people.
games ideas design
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!
writing thinking easy
If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.
business clueless obvious
In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.
moving divorce writing
Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ...uh... dosey-do.
successful people advice
Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.
writing america people
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.
insanity cosmetics assuming
I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.
weasels humans err-is-human
To err is human. To cover it up is weasel.
believe fetch salmon
If you don't believe your salmon is wild, ask it to fetch your newspaper and see what happens.
thinking keyboards lists
There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.
effort rewards calendars
The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar,