Michael Malice

It's possible you'll never communicate with them again.

That doesn't change your opinion of them one bit.

Scott tried to do two things in his content.

He tried to make people laugh, and he tried to make people think.

Was every Dilbert hilarious?

No.

So what?

Some were really good and memorable, and some you forgot about them the second you finished reading them.

I'm sure Scott forgot a lot about them too, that if he went back to read some of them, he'd think, well, that wasn't very clever.

The good ones he'd remember well and have a story to tell about how he wrote them.

Some of the good ones probably came to him in a flash, while the others he had to work on the exact wording for weeks or months.

The other thing Scott tried to do was to make people think and to make people think about how they thought.

Again, not everything he said was on the money, but how would that even be possible?

No one can say smart things all the time, but when you're dealing with a smart person like Scott, you remember those smart things they said for the rest of your life.

You might also remember those dumb things because it's surprising when a smart person says something dumb.

It's not a surprise when a dumb person says something dumb.

You just go on thinking, yep, there they go, being dumb.

But when a smart person says something dumb, you think, huh, that's odd that this smart person said a dumb thing.

And if you really want to get into it, you wonder, hey, maybe I'm the one being dumb here.

Maybe he sees something I don't, or maybe I'm just misunderstanding what he means.