Quotes by Scott Adams

The only risk of failure is promotion.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

If your current get-rich project fails, take what you learned and try something else. Keep repeating until something lucky happens. The universe has plenty of luck to go around; you just need to keep your hand raised until its your turn. It helps to see failure as a road and not a wall.

Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.

The greenest home is the one you dont build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house thats already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels dont want.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, youre certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing youre gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

The best things in life are silly.

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.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

Theres kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you dont pet her for 10 minutes shell bother you for six hours.

If you see voters as rational, youll be a terrible politician. People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But thats O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.

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 wouldnt have to ride around with jerks.

Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.

“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.”

“I love you like a fat kid loves cake!”