Scott Adams Quotes

If an economist uses a complicated model to predict just about anything, you can ignore it. By analogy, a doctor can’t tell you the exact date of your death in 50 years. But if a doctor tells you to eat less and exercise more, that’s good advice even if you later get hit by a bus. Along those same lines, economists can give useful general advice on the economy, even if you know there will be surprises. Still, be skeptical.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.

They say that dogs lick their own genitalia because they can. But I think it's at least partially because they don't have the Internet.

Just because no one has ever gotten better from Spasmodic Dysphonia before doesn't mean I can't be the first.

The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

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.

The biggest issue in this election is something called flip-flopping, and all candidates are accused of doing it. A strong leader is expected to maintain steadfast resolve in his opinion even if the environment changes or he gets new information. In any other context, that would be considered the first sign of a brain tumor. When presidents do it, it's called leadership, and frankly, we can't get enough of it.

If there is one thing that our role models in this election have taught us, it's that omitting important information is completely different from lying.

Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Trump can invent any reality he wants for the less important topics.

Trump ignores facts whenever they are inconvenient. I know you don't want to think this works in terms of persuasion. But it does.

Did my persuasion make any difference? There is no way to tell.

The things that have the most mental impact on you will irrationally seem as though they are high in priority, even if they are not. That's persuasion.