Scott Adams: 8 June 1957 to 13 January 2026.
I loved his Dilbert cartoons, when I was working in the insanity that was (is?) info tech. He captured the insanity on most days, and was perfect in a couple of instances. I particularly liked this example from 1994.
I started by reasoning that anything I don't understand is easy to do.
(Page down for Scott Adams's final statement written on the first of January, and published after his death.)
A Final Message From Scott Adams pic.twitter.com/QKX6b0MFZA
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) January 13, 2026
As for that "If I don't understand it, it must be easy to do attitude...
Politicians are especially prone to this kind of thinking. "You will drive an electric vehicle to save the environment." Pay no attention to the fact that car is powered by coal, dependent on child Labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the environmental devastation due to lithium mining in South American and nickle miming in Indonesia, or the toxic lakes in western China. And don't trouble yourself over the fact that the copper mining industry will need to expand by 8 or 10 times to produce enough copper wire to make it possible. You will do it because we said so.
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