564 Quotes by Scott Adams

Persistence is useful, but there’s no point in being an idiot about it.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you’ll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

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

I’ve long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

If you haven’t already told your kids ‘don’t fellate the president’ then you’re probably a bad parent.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people’s hard work is rewarding and faster.

For five hundred dollars, I’ll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. H. P. LOVECRAFT, “The Call of Cthulhu” When did ignorance become a point of view?