564 Quotes by Scott Adams

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it’s difficult to sort them out.

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.

Why aren’t you signed up for the 401K? I’d never be able to run that far.

A smarter approach is to think of learning as a system in which you continually expose yourself to new topics, primarily the ones you find interesting. My.

Some physicists describe gravity in terms of ten dimensions all curled up. But those aren’t real words-just placeholders, used to refer to parts of abstract equations.

Dilbert: I’m obsessed with inventing a perpetual motion machine. Most scientists think it’s impossible, but I have something they don’t. Dogbert: A lot of spare time? Dilbert: Exactly.

As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won’t run out of material.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. It sounds trivial and obvious, but if you unpack the idea it has extraordinary power.

I’m primarily just an investor.