564 Quotes by Scott Adams

Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners.

In the future, airplanes will be flown by a dog and a pilot. And the dog’s job will be to make sure that if the pilot tries to touch any of the buttons, the dog bites him.

I’ve explained to a number of people my observations about how exercise, diet, and sleep influence mood. The usual reaction is a blank expression followed by a change of topic. No one wants to believe that the formula for happiness is as simple as daydreaming, controlling your schedule, napping, eating right, and being active every day. You’d feel like an idiot for suffering so many unhappy days while not knowing the cure was so accessible.

I can’t bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it.

We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren’t. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them later... Your illusion of being a rational person is supported by the fact that sometimes you do act rationally.

I should have written that down. – Dilbert.

If you think more privacy is always better, that is a case of loserthink. Every situation is different. Sometimes privacy is the problem that prevents the solution.

I don’t read the news to find truth, as that would be a foolish waste of time.

Whenever you have money, reputations, power, ego, and complexity in play, it is irrational to assume you are seeing objective science.