Scott Adams People Quotations

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids.

It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.

In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.

One thing people don't realize is that you take off a lot quicker than you could ever stop. You can get up to 100 in five seconds, but that top speed back to zero, it doesn't brake as well as it accelerates.

It fascinates me that there are people like that, and they're allowed to vote.

A lot of people ... tend to forget there is someone in the suit.

Crazy personalities work, which is why people do it, but most manufacturers discourage it.

I've had a great time, ... I don't get to work with this many smart people all at the same time on one cool thing very often.

The idea is just to bring people downtown, ... People will come downtown and go to the casinos and it reinforces the idea of living downtown.

Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.

People are idiots. Including me. Everyone is an idiot, not just the people with the low SAT scores. The only difference 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.

Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.

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

Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

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.

Moslem: people who believe suicide is a good way to get laid.

Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.

The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots.

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

Always remember that as long as other people are gullible, there's no limit to what you can achieve.

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

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

I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.

There's no such thing as good ideas and bad ideas. There are only your own ideas and other people's. If you want someone to like your idea, tell him he said it first last week and you just remembered it.

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.

People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there and other people don't. That's why the only solution to terrorism is for religious scholars to hold a global summit to agree on the definition of "holy place." Once they agree on a definition, it will be easier to mock it into submission.

As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.

The best any human can do is to pick a delusion that helps him get through the day. This is why people of different religions can generally live in peace. At some level, we all suspect that other people don't believe their own religion any more than we believe ours.

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.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane.

Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto

The source of all unhappiness is other people. As soon as you learn to think of other people as noisy furniture, the sooner you will be happy. - Wally's Keynote Speech