Scott Adams Quotes - Page 10

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• Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

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  Vocabulary, Brain, Limits

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.39, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• 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.

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  Giving, Mail, Messages

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• There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

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  Moral Behavior, Life Happens, Gray Area

  "Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel". Book by Scott Adams, 2002.

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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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  Years, Boss, Different

  "An Interview with the "Dilbert" Cartoonist Scott Adams" by Zachary Kanin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2008.

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• You might think the word "homemade" is just a word we use as a marketing ploy. But what you don't realize is that the staff sleeps here at night. If your tablecloth is wrinkled, that's why.

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  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

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  Nice, People, Gloves

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Trying, Stuff

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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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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  Hands, Drawing, Fancy

  "An Interview with the “Dilbert” Cartoonist Scott Adams" by Zachary Kanin, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2008.

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• A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.

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  Death, Suicide, Skills

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• There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

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  Funny Work, Marketing, Lines

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• In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

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  Car, Hot, Way

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• You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

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  Death, Suicide, Perfect

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• Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

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  Fashion, Business, Clothes

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• Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.

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  Morning, Night, Focus

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• I think the pleasure of completed work is what makes blogging so popular. You have to believe most bloggers have few if any actual readers. The writers are in it for other reasons. Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn. All you get is the pleasure of a completed task.

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  Work, Believe, Thinking

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• Your shower is ready - I turned it on last night.

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  Night, Lasts, Dilbert

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• I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you [women]. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.

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  Wife, Legs, Jeeves

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• I should have written that down. - Dilbert

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  Should Have, Dilbert, Should

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• Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

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  Rest Of Life

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• I've always defined myself not as a cartoonist , but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.

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  Entrepreneur, Would Be, Cartoonist

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• Home is pretty utopian.

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  Home, Utopian

  "'Dilbert' creator on working at home, getting his voice back". CNN.com Interview, www.cnn.com. November 7, 2007.

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• 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.

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  Home, Office, Easier

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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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  Drawing, Style, Reason Why

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• The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

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  Food, Wedding Anniversary, Wife

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• Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there

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  Men, World, Mail

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