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Quotes from God's Debris — Scott Adams

1957–2026 United States

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An omnipotent being has no need to rank things.

God's Debris (2001)

It is absurd to define God as omnipotent and then burden him with our own myopic view of the significance of human beings.

God's Debris (2001)

Conversation can be many things, but it can never be useless.

God's Debris (2001)

Morality and willpower are illusions. For any human being, the highest urge always wins and willpower never enters into it.

God's Debris (2001)

Four billion people say they believe in God, but few genuinely believe. If people believed in God, they would live every minute of their lives in support of that belief.

God's Debris (2001)

Conversation is more than the sum of the words. It is also a way of signaling the importance of another person by showing your willingness to give that person your rarest resource: time.

God's Debris (2001)

Don't judge people by their mistakes; rather, judge them by how they respond to their mistakes.

God's Debris (2001)

Attend to your own basic needs first; otherwise you will not be useful to anyone else.

God's Debris (2001)

People think they follow advice but they don't. Humans are only capable of receiving information. They create their own advice. If you seek to influence someone, don't waste time giving advice. You can change only what people know, not what they do.

God's Debris (2001)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Scott Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.