SCOTT ADAMS QUOTES

American cartoonist (1957- )

Stem cells are like toenail clippings with a better career plan.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: stem cells


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.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: misfortune


When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.

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Dogbert

Tags: virtual reality, dating


When did ignorance become a point of view?

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Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: ignorance


Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

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The Dilbert Principle

Tags: dating, religion


I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

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Dilbert 2.0: 20 Years of Dilbert

Tags: work


I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over two hundred years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: politics


Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

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Dilbert

Tags: innovation


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

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: optimism, attitude


You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: vegetarianism


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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Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland

Tags: ideas


The government runs the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, so they must know a thing or two about satisfying women.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: government, women


Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's.

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God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

Tags: possibility


I believe everybody in the world should have guns. I also believe that only I should have ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of you goobers with anything more dangerous than a string.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: guns


Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

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Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland

Tags: work


They say that God is watching everyone all the time, so he'd always get to see his jokes play out. If so, he's laughing his butt off, assuming God has a butt, which is unlikely, since butts are also an obvious practical joke.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: God


Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

Tags: fishing


Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

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The Dilbert Principle

Tags: journalism


If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

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Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel

Tags: insanity


Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

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attributed, Dictionary of Quotations

Tags: forgiveness, revenge