Scott Adams passed away earlier this week. He was the author of the Dilbert cartoon strip which used to run in newspapers everywhere who, once the heyday of his creation started to fade, let his life spiral into a cesspit of bigotry and hate so awful that it completely ruined his reputation and, to some extent, his existing work. Sometimes success goes right to someone's head and causes an interesting feedback loop -- "if I am successful then it must be that I am much more intelligent than everyone else".