"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."
― Scott Adams
"Time is so short, you can't make a debug..."
― Scott Adams
"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. "
― Scott Adams
"To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they 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. "
― Scott Adams
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
― Scott Adams
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
― Scott Adams
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."
― Scott Adams
"If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it."
― Scott Adams
"The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management."
― Scott Adams
"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."
― Scott Adams
"Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results."
― Scott Adams
"You can change only what people know, not what they do."
― Scott Adams
"Reality is always controlled by the people who are the most insane."
― Scott Adams
"The only risk of failure is promotion."
― Scott Adams
“Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily avialable, they will create their own problems.”
― Scott Adams
"One thing I can say with complete certainty is that it is a bad idea to trust the majority of experts in any domain in which both complexity and large amounts of money are involved."
― Scott Adams