Zitat des Tages von Scott Adams:
I've tried lots of things. The reality is, I'm excited by everything on Day 1. And if by Day X things aren't working the way I hoped, I lose my passion. I have not seen the correlation between my passion and my success.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
I'm primarily just an investor.
The only risk of failure is promotion.
In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.
Success is entirely accessible, even if you happen to be a huge screw-up 95 percent of the time.
The longer you work here, diverse it gets.
I get mail; therefore I am.
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
I try to avoid giving advice.
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
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.
'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
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.
I think 'Dilbert' will remain popular as long as employees are frustrated and they fear the consequences of complaining too loudly. 'Dilbert' is the designated voice of discontent for the workplace. I never planned it that way. It just happened.
When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.
For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
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.
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.
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
People vote based on emotion. Period.
If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'
The best things in life are silly.
I have an endless stream of suggestions coming in from readers who are in cubicles. That keeps me going.
In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.