Top 300 Scott Adams Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.”

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252. “Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.”

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253. “Idiocy in the modern age isn’t an all-encompassing, twenty-four-hour situation for most people. It’s a condition that everybody slips into many times a day. Life is just too complicated to be smart all the time.”

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254. “I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, ‘You know, I’m the only person in this restaurant who can’t draw.’”

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255. “The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.”

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256. “This was my first exposure to the idea that one should have a system instead of a goal. The system was to continually look for better options.”

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257. “Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the ‘incompetence line’ through no fault of their own.”

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258. “When you can release on your ego long enough to view your perceptions as incomplete or misleading, it gives you the freedom to imagine new and potentially more useful ways of looking at the world.”

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259. “The Knowledge Formula: The More You Know, the More You Can Know.”

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260. “The computer cuts my production time in half. I love it.”

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261. “I’m surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.”

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262. “The next ring – and your second-biggest priority – is economics. That includes your job, your investments, and even your house. You might wince at the fact that I put economics ahead of your family, your friends, and the rest of the world, but there’s a reason. If you don’t get your personal financial engine working right, you place a burden on everyone from your family to the country.”

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

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264. “Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?”

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265. “Consider the people who routinely disagree with you. See how confident they look while being dead wrong? That’s exactly how you look to them.”

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266. “God designs people’s emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn’t even use your hollowed-out skull for a spittoon.”

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267. “You should also try to figure out which people are thing people and which ones are people people.”

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268. “Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.”

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269. “If you want to understand UFOs, reincarnation and God, do not study UFOs, reincarnation and God. Study people.”

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270. “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.”

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271. “If eating a healthy diet feels unpleasant, you’re doing it wrong. And you’re wasting your limited stockpile of willpower.”

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272. “The prediction models are more about persuasion than science.”

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273. “Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them.”

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274. “My investments have been hurt.”

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275. “One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there’s something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.”

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276. “Inaccurate worldviews are the only kind there is.”

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277. “When politicians tell lies, they know the press will call them out. They also know it doesn’t matter. Politicians understand that reason will never have much of a role in voting decisions. A lie that makes a voter feel good is more effective than a hundred rational arguments. That’s even true when the voter knows the lie is a lie.”

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

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279. “If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I’d be a 400 pound guy.”

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280. “If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem to have bad reasoning skills.”

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281. “I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.”

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282. “The people who think a guy walked on water versus the people who think a horse can fly.”

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283. “If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.”

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284. “These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That’s certainly what I’m hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.”

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285. “I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.”

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286. “If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.”

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287. “One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.”

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288. “The challenge was that the bad ideas sounded terrific to the uninformed person. You couldn’t kill these particular bad ideas with logic because the arguments against them would be too complicated. You had to go in through the back door.”

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289. “My mother, in the style of the times, told me I could do anything I set my sights on. She said I could be the president, an astronaut, or the next Charles Schulz. I believed her because at that point in my life I hadn’t yet noticed the pattern of her deceptions.”

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

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291. “Pessimism is often a failure of imagination.”

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292. “I’m saying that people claim to believe in God, but most don’t literally believe. They only act as though they believe because there are earthly benefits in doing so. They create a delusion for themselves because it makes them happy.”

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293. “I love magazines. It’s such McNugget kind of information.”

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294. “If you can’t imagine any other explanation for a set of facts, it might be because you are bad at imagining things.”

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295. “This was about the time that my opinion of experts, and authority figures in general, began a steady descent that continues to this day.”

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296. “You know you’re in a bureaucracy when a hundred people who think ‘A’ get together and compromise on ‘B.”

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297. “Whenever you have a lot of money in play, combined with the ability to hide misbehavior behind complexity, you should expect widespread fraud to happen.”

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298. “According to Dr. Andrew Huberman, you can hack your dopamine reward system by reframing your work today as essential to the kind of future you want. That gives you a reason to be happy every day. I call it preferring systems over goals. If you are following a good system, the reward is that you followed the system.”

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299. “Make a claim that is directionally accurate but has a big exaggeration or factual error in it. Wait for people to notice the exaggeration or error and spend endless hours talking about how wrong it is. When you dedicate focus and energy to an idea, you remember it. And the things that have the most mental impact on you will irrationally seem as though they are high in priority, even if they are not. That’s persuasion.”

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300. “Confirmation bias isn’t an occasional bug in our human operating system. It is the operating system. We are designed by evolution to see new information as supporting our existing opinions, so long as it doesn’t stop us from procreating. Evolution doesn’t care if you understand your reality. It only cares that you reproduce.”

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