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Vote: | Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. |
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Vote: | Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? |
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Vote: | If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. |
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Vote: | In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon. |
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Vote: | In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks. |
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Vote: | Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. |
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Vote: | Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams. |
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Vote: | Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. |
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Vote: | The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. |
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Vote: | The only risk of failure is promotion. |
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Vote: | 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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Scott Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books.
He was born in Windham, New York and received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Hartwick College in 1979.
He also studied economics and management for his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
He worked closely with telecommunications engineers at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco between 1979 and 1986, and at Pacific Bell between 1986 and June 1995, and draws on their personalities for those of his Dilbert characters.
He is also the CEO of Scott Adams Foods, Inc., makers of the Dilberito & Protein Chef, and a co-owner of Stacey's Café in Pleasanton, California. Much of his interest in the food business comes from the fact that he is a vegetarian.
He is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Publications (see also Dilbert)
*Dilbert newsletter (since 1994)
*The Dilbert Principle (1996)
*Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook (1996)
*The Dilbert Future (1997)
*The Joy of Work (1998)
*God's Debris (2001)
*Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel (2002)
*The Religion War (2004)
...(more on Wikipedia)
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Scott Adams".
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