Scott Adams Quotes
You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.
Adams, Scott. The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century. HarperBusiness, 1997, p. 84.
"Entanglement" is where, under certain conditions, one particle's movement can control the movement of another particle far from it with no apparent physical connection between them.
The Congressman had been found to have committed a number of serious ethical violations and then was accused by a Texas District Attorney of his own party of money laundering and violating Texas campaign finance laws. His ethical and legal problems were heavily covered in the news when the Schiavo case developed of the woman whose brain had been starved for oxygen, for years in a persistent vegetative state, who had not wished to live hooked up to tubes. Some conservatives challenged the right of the husband and the hospital to follow the woman’s wishes even after the courts had consistently ruled that this had been the woman’s wish. Delay used this tragic case to divert attention from his own lapses. It did not work. Some months thereafter, he was forced to resign.
Scott Raymond Adams is an American artist and creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business. His Dilbert series came to national prominence through the downsizing period in 1990s America and was then distributed worldwide. Adams worked in various roles at big businesses before he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995. He writes in a satirical, often sarcastic way about the social and psychological landscape of white-collar workers in modern business corporations.
