I never knew what an engineer did for a living when I was a kid. I still don't.

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.

One Dilbert Blog reader noted that current research shows that happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. That makes sense to me. There's plenty of research about people having a baseline of happiness that doesn't vary much with circumstances. And given that happy people are typically optimistic, energetic, and fun to work with, I can see how happiness would lead to success.

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

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

I keep hearing the argument that some things are constitutional while other things are not. The idea is that we should be in favor of all the things that were decided over 200 years ago by a bunch of slave-owning cross-dressers who pooped in holes.

It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism.