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Scott Adams Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 8, 1957

Topics

People Believe Enough Engineers Fix

There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done.

Work Business Knowledge World Care

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Stanley Hauerwas

God Sin Know Through Own Our

Certainly in the theatre, you never have to get up before 10 A.M., and when filming, though you do have to get up terribly early, you usually get to lie down a lot during the working day. I thought my semi-bedridden existence was a choice. But now I think that actually, in fact, I must always have been depressed.

Day Lie Theatre Think Thought You

Ultimately, you've got to have something to say, so a writer should continue learning things throughout life. But I don't think education makes one a writer.

Life Education Learning Think You

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

Ride People You Know Up Answer

At 18 to 20, I was probably one of the quickest things around, at the peak of my powers.

Things Peak Around Powers

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

Swimming Accomplish Done English

I'll buy half the wardrobe after 'The Impressions Show' has finished - I know it fits and looks good, because I'm impersonating people such as Angelina Jolie.

Debra Stephenson

Kid Always Up Used Again Pick

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

Wonder Soldier Bullet Coat I Wonder

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

Parents Party Old Line Leave Up

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Success Failure People Me Think

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

Pharrell Williams

Music Perspective First Things Fan

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