He created the Dilbert comic strip – which ran in many newspapers until there were fewer newspapers and they disliked that Mr. Adams didn’t kowtow to their leftist ways. He also pointed out the “One screen, two movies” of the Right and Left where they might be looking at the same screen, but seeing wildly different things.
Like most, I never met him, nor ever interacted with him. I read his comic. Various strips were (are) commonly seen in places where IT folks or programmers worked. Likely, most any technical setting. Some time ago a fellow I knew complained that, “Dilbert isn’t funny.” And, well, he was right. The Dilbert strip was not “funny ha-ha.” It perhaps closer to “funny, uh-oh.” But what it really was, was “You are not alone.” I’d heard “I think Scott Adams has a spy here.” No need. Corporate insanity is corporate insanity.
The one time I thought he’d lost it was later explained. If you followed the strip ‘back in the day’ you might recall the land of Elbonia, where everyone was always waist deep in mud, and things made even less sense than usual. What was going on? Mr. Adams explained, without explicitly saying it was Elbonia in the strip, that he had figured the strip was then established well enough he could take a serious chance. He had wondered when the letters of the “How did you know…?” sort would stop as he made things ever more improbable and outright insane.
The letters never stopped.
No matter how screwy he made things, the Universe had beat him to it.
The Elegant Ungulate 