564 Quotes by Scott Adams

Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with low SAT scores. The only differences among us is that we’re idiots about different things at different times. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.

A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments.

The power of daydreaming is similar to the power of well-made movies that can make you cry or make you laugh.

The system-versus-goals model can be applied to most human endeavors. In the world of dieting, losing twenty pounds is a goal, but eating right is a system. In the exercise realm, running a marathon in under four hours is a goal, but exercising daily is a system. In business, making a million dollars is a goal, but being a serial entrepreneur is a system.

Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, tells us that people become unhappy if they have too many options in life. The problem with options is that choosing any path can leave you plagued with self-doubt.

I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.

Everybody is somebody’s else’s weirdo.

Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It’s the implementation that’s important! The trick isn’t just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don’t.