The Dilbert Principle (1995)
Context: These days it seems like any idiot with a laptop computer can churn out a business book and make a few bucks. That's certainly what I'm hoping. It would be a real letdown if the trend changed before this masterpiece goes to print.
“Any idiot can face a crisis—it’s day to day living that wears you out.”
“The profession of book-writing makes horse-racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), but a statement he is first quoted as having made in Newsweek (24 December 1962)
On My Own Private Idaho, Empire, (1992)
“Of seeming arms to make a short essay,
Then hasten to be drunk — the business of the day.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), Cymon and Iphigenia, Lines 407–408.
“Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.”
As quoted in "I lost my heart in... New York", in The Guardian (13 May 2005) http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2005/may/14/lostmyheart.guardiansaturdaytravelsection
