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Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

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Scott Adams
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 8
Blogger
Comic Strip Creator
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Scott Raymond Adams
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If your boss gets drunk and offers to photocopy her posterior, do not helpfully suggest pressing reduce 75%.
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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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You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
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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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Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click.
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Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
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Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.
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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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As long as there are annoying people in the world, I won't run out of material.
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No matter how many times I visit New York City, I am always struck by the same thing - a yellow taxicab.
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Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?
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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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Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time.
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In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.
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I love magazines. It's such McNugget kind of information.
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My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.
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People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.
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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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Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
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