Top 300 Scott Adams Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”

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52. “Great minds don’t think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.”

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53. “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.”

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54. “Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”

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

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56. “There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.”

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57. “As a rule, I don’t like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it’s really, really funny.”

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58. “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?”

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59. “A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.”

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60. “Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.”

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61. “I’m slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can’t motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”

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62. “The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.”

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63. “I get mail; therefore I am.”

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64. “The best things in life are silly.”

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65. “I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.”

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66. “If a job’s worth doing, it’s too hard.”

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67. “Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons.”

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68. “Lately... the Peter Principle has given way to the “Dilbert Principle.” The basic concept of the Dilbert Principle is that the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”

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69. “As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.”

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70. “Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.”

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71. “Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.”

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72. “I’m primarily just an investor.”

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73. “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.”

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74. “Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding.”

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75. “I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk – anything than can’t kill you immediately.”

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76. “We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.”

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77. “Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.”

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

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79. “I was busier than a beaver in a coffee lake.”

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80. “Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. – Dogbert’s Motto.”

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81. “Failure is where success likes to hide in plain sight.”

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82. “Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue.”

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83. “Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.”

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84. “Pessimism is often a failure of imagination. If you can imagine the future being brighter, it lifts your energy and gooses the chemistry in your body that produces a sensation of happiness.”

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85. “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.”

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86. “If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it’s done.”

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87. “I also find it helpful to remind myself that every human is a mess on the inside. It’s easy to assume the good-looking and well-spoken person in front of you has it all together and is therefore your superior. The reality is that everyone is a basket case on the inside. Some people just hide it better. Find me a normal person and I’ll show you someone you don’t know that well. It helps to remind yourself that your own flaws aren’t that bad compared with everyone else’s. I.”

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88. “On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.”

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89. “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!”

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90. “There’s a fine line between marketing and grand theft.”

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91. “The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.”

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92. “In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn’t have to ride around with jerks.”

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93. “For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That’s exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.”

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94. “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.”

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95. “Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.”

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96. “The world isn’t fair, but as long as it’s tilting in my direction, I find that there’s a natural cap to my righteous indignation.”

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97. “On all the important stuff, we are emotional creatures who make decisions first and rationalize them after the fact.”

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98. “Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don’t know why.”

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99. “Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.”

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100. “The greenest home is the one you don’t build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that’s already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don’t want.”

— Scott Adams