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" Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. "
Scott Adams
Engineers
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" People vote based on emotion. Period. "
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" 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. "
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" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "
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" I don't get embarrassed by the same things that other people do. I would say that probably the biggest thing that holds people back is, 'If I do this, I'm going to look like an idiot if it doesn't work out.' "
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" I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information. "
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" Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay. "
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" The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. "
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" If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. "
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" I try to avoid giving advice. "
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" Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. "
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" Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. "
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" If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until it's your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall. "
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" One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead. "
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" Psychology is the only necessary skill for running for president. Trump knows psychology. "
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" There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives. "
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" My investments have been hurt. "
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" Many, if not most, career opportunities come to you through people you know. So the more people you know, the more opportunities you have. Improving your social network is a great example of a system for moving from lower odds to better odds without having a specific goal. "
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" Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed. "
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" If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try? "
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" The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing. "
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" One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer. "
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" I'm primarily just an investor. "
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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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" When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable. "
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" If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game. "
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" I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet. "
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