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Everything you learn becomes a shortcut for understanding something else.

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Scott Adams
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 8
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Scientists often invent words to fill the holes in their understanding.These words are meant as conveniences until real understanding can be found. ... Words such as dimension and field and infinity ... are not descriptions of reality, yet we accept them as such because everyone is sure someone else knows what the words mean.
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure.
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It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
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If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.
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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 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.
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When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.
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Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.
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There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.
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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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He changed more times than a baby in a beer-drinking contest.
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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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Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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I had several different bosses during the early years of 'Dilbert.' They were all pretty sure I was mocking someone else.
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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.
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
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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.
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Remember, freedom is always taken, never given.
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Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
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'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
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We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.
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