Dilbert cartoon first published on Friday 9th February 2018

Dilbert//10527, first published eight years ago on Friday 9th February 2018

Obvious Ideas

Tags

copyright, ideas, thinking, stealing, intellectual property, originality

Official transcript

Boss: People keep stealing all of my great ideas. Alice: Have you ruled out the possibility that you only think of ideas that are obvious? Boss: Hmm... I hadn't considered that. Alice: And yet it was obvious.

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

PEOPLE KEEP STEALING ALL OF MY GREAT IDEAS.

HAVE YOU RULED OUT THE POSSIBILITY THAT YOU ONLY THINK OF IDEAS THAT ARE OBVIOUS?

HMM.

I HADN'T CONSIDERED THAT.

AND YET IT WAS OBVIOUS.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

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