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" If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. "
Scott Adams
Show
Trouble
Done
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" The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it. "
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Computer
Half
Time
" The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you. "
Scott Adams
Time
Chance
Gambling
" 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.' "
Scott Adams
Like
Passion
Passionate
" You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me. "
Scott Adams
Influence
People
My Life
" Rotten bosses don't get better. Any strategy that assumes they can is doomed. "
Scott Adams
Better
Bosses
Get
" I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing. "
Scott Adams
Me
Hated
Doing
" I try to avoid giving advice. "
Scott Adams
Try
Advice
Giving
" Before 'Dilbert,' I tried to become a computer programmer. In the early days of computing, I bought this big, heavy, portable computer for my house. I spent two years nights and weekends trying to write games that I thought I would sell. Turns out I'm not that good a programmer, so that was two years that didn't work out. "
Scott Adams
Two
Work
Early
" There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives. "
Scott Adams
Few
High
Through
" 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. "
Scott Adams
Luck
Need
Failure
" I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff. "
Scott Adams
Try
Creativity
Day
" If a job's worth doing, it's too hard. "
Scott Adams
Job
Hard
Doing
" 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? "
Scott Adams
You
People
Knowledge
" 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. "
Scott Adams
Working
Home
Office
" I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with 'thought you'd be interested,' and then give an electrical shock to the sender to remind him or her to stop send that kind of message. "
Scott Adams
Search
You
Her
" I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else. "
Scott Adams
Pretty
Years
Early
" Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. "
Scott Adams
Business
Long
Tradition
" 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. "
Scott Adams
Life
Business
Passion
" There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation. "
Scott Adams
Always
Meet
Myself
" One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special. "
Scott Adams
Stand
Strategy
Good
" Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom. "
Scott Adams
Freedom
Health
Happiness
" Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. "
Scott Adams
Creativity
Yourself
Art
" The only risk of failure is promotion. "
Scott Adams
Promotion
Risk
Failure
" 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. "
Scott Adams
Luck
Game
Story
" You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. "
Scott Adams
Never
Underestimate
Stupidity
" When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable. "
Scott Adams
Bad
Become
Off
" Home is pretty utopian. "
Scott Adams
Pretty
Utopian
Home
" I get mail; therefore I am. "
Scott Adams
Get
Mail
Therefore
" I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. "
Scott Adams
Invitation
Decline
Your
" Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. "
Scott Adams
Stupidity
Energy
Focus