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Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More

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“I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.”

“Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.”

“You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change.”

“He changed more times than a baby in a beer-drinking contest.”

“I can't bring myself to believe in a God with a personality like my own. I base that on the paucity of lightning attacks on people who deserve it.”

“The people who think a guy walked on water versus the people who think a horse can fly.”

“I believe in karma... that means i can do bad things to you all day long and assume you deserve it.”

“You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal student poontang as The Hawkster, you'd be in a wheelchair too.”

“There's a fine line between participation and mockery.”

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

“Everyone says there's a lack of leadership in the world these days. I think we should all be thankful, because the only reason for leadership is to convince people to do things that are either dangerous (like invading another country) or stupid (working extra hard without extra pay).”

“Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.”

“Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.”

“The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the”

“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.”

“God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed-out skull for a spittoon.”

“As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.”

“For the record, I am not a nut. I am an optimist. That's exactly like a nut except with a better attitude.”

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.”

“The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.”

“The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.”

“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.”