Well, to me, he was an island of individuality and a sea of conformity, and that's what he wrote about,

and that's what he drew about, and that seems to be how he lived his life. Hi, everybody, I'm Bill Little

here with Steve Green and Scott Ott. Sad but not unexpected news that Scott Adams has died and

has left a pretty big hole. And guys, you know, the thing about Scott Adams that I found remarkable

was that it is a very rare intersection of Venn diagrams

when you have the writing skill and the artistic ability to refine things in a creative way and at the same time have the engineering background

to know why the system is as messed up as it is. Dilbert, as far as I am aware, is the only

comic strip that was ever written about engineers, about the guys who keep the world running.

It is an astonishing fact that you could consistently for so long turn out a daily commentary

of what is essentially the most invisible and somewhat boring jobs in the world. How do

accountants work? What is the qualities of middle management and so on?

I was going to close the show with this,

but this is as good a point as any for me

to just run these three panels of my favorite Dilbert strip here.

So without commentary, I'll just give them to you.

The brown ring of quality, yes. That is a guy who has lived in corporate culture and knows exactly what all of that is.

Steve, there's an everyman quality to that.

You know, we talk about, you know, working people and we kind of want to think, we say,

a working man, we kind of think, you know, construction or something like that.

But really, most of us are employed in some kind of an office setting. And you have to be astonishingly astute, not just to comment on

what the system looks like in a bureaucracy, but to understand it well enough to make the kind of incisive commentary

on the just insanity of these endless meetings and these consultants, I mean, that really is a

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