One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it.

On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key.

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

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.

Hard work is rewarding. Taking credit for other people's hard work is rewarding and faster.

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.