564 Quotes by Scott Adams

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

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.

Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

Our perceptions of truth are built around what is practical, not what is true. Even the smartest human brain doesn't have the capacity for discerning true facts. That's why so many of us settle for scientific facts. It's the best we can do.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there and other people don't. That's why the only solution to terrorism is for religious scholars to hold a global summit to agree on the definition of "holy place." Once they agree on a definition, it will be easier to mock it into submission.