(as seen on Reddit)
I stumbled across this blog entry by Mr. Dilbert today… Wow, he's so damn cool I can't even contain myself. I'm literally peeing down my leg right now. It's both satisfying and awkward.
From Adams:
I suggested a few cleverly designed, hypnosis-inspired phrases that were the linguistic equivalent of Kung Fu. They were simple (that’s my specialty), and once you heard these phrases, they made any competing ideas seem frankly stupid. Think of Johnny Cochran’s famous refrain “If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” In my opinion, O.J. is a free man largely because of that phrase. My phrases worked the same way.
The people in high places tried my phrases. The phrases became world headlines the next day. I could tune the TV to any news channel and hear my words coming out of pundits’ mouths. The phrases smothered the competing ideas and just maybe changed the course of world events. (One can never know for sure.)
Seriously though… I don't know what to make of it. He could have made his point with about half as much, or less, tooting of his own horn. What is his point? He works on solving the problems in the Middle East? Not to continue the persecution he has felt his entire life with all of the doubting of his amazing abilities, but I'm pretty sure some pretty amazing minds have been put to the task at hand… And if it were just about getting smart people involved, war in general would have been solved a long time ago.
Really, I'm not saying he hasn't worked hard and been driven and succedded in the things he's worked at, he has. Heck, it'd be cool if I could just do the drawing of a successful comic part (I can't draw for a shit though), so I didn't have to work a day job. But if he's in over his head in anything, it's because his ego threatening to drown him.
What Would Matt Do: Eh, not much. I know nothing of large egos or the like. But I found it an interesting read all the same.