Conehead's not wrong. He's just said it badly. Sometimes you have to know when to say, "This just isn't going to work. We have to move on to something else."
A robot will persist until success, but then has to be programmed to quit -- so it needs both keys. Maybe the CEO was prematurely addressing his robot army.
@PokerGrumpy - Dilbert must have cheesed someone off royally to have to go there! In is defence, he is doing everything he can to try to prevent a repeat!