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.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

For five hundred dollars, I'll name a subatomic particle after you. Some of my satisfied customers include Arthur C. Quark and George Meson.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.

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.