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Scott Adams—Windham

Birth

Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books.

Scott Adams, 50, cartoonist (“Dilbert”) born Windham, NY

Education

He moved to Northern California in 1979 after college and has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since then. He holds a BA in economics from Hartwick College, in Oneonta, New York, and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Fame

Born in Windham, N.Y. in 1957, Scott Adams is best known as the creator of the Dilbert® comic strip.

Scott Adams (of dilbert fame).

Work

Scott Adams lost his voice 18 months ago from a rare condition known as Spasmodic Dysphonia.

He signed up for Google alerts based off of the keywords “Scott Adams Dilbert”, and Scott Adams expects to receive email or SMS alerts directly on his Blackberry, especially when his wife is scrolling through the DVR’s menus. ... Secondly, I will not be surprised to find that Scott Adams (Dilbert) only hypothetically has this Google Alert service enabled. It could be just another “thought experiment”, as he is so fond of doing. I partially believe this because of his URL path–it is “too_frickin_coo”, not cool as his post slug suggests. His wetware is too well lubricated to have not thought through this possibility. Lastly I predict that Scott Adams (Dilbert) will be very amused by whatever happens.

Scott Adams weighs in on his blog, asking tongue-in-cheek Why Is Music Legal? Obviously Dilbert is not today the cultural touchstone it once was, but Adams retains his eye for amusingly seein' things backwards.

Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, is now using a Wacom Cintiq 21UX interactive pen display to draw his world-renowned comic.

He's also a certified hypnotist so if you meet him and he starts waving a watch at you, run! Adams held a variety of-in his words-"humiliating and low-paying jobs" during his eight years at Crocker National Bank and nine years at Pacific Bell. He's been a bank teller (he was robbed twice at gunpoint), computer programmer, financial analyst, product manager, commercial lender, budget manager, strategist, project manager, and pseudo-engineer.

It is written by Scott Adams who is the author of three other books, The Dilbert principle, Dogbert's top secret management handbook and The ... Read review

Scott Adams, author of Dilbert and an exceptionally smart and interesting blogger; after reading the article he got himself a bit wrapped around the axle.