Matthew Crawford famous quotes

What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?
-- Matthew Crawford

#Bullshit #Personality #Doe

We in the West have arranged our institutions to prevent the concentration of political power. … But we have failed utterly to prevent the concentration of economic power, or take account of how such concentration damages the conditions under which full human flourishing becomes possible (it is never guaranteed).
-- Matthew Crawford

#Political #Damage #West

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.
-- Matthew Crawford

#Doe #Spectators #Idle

It's a good idea to pay attention to the world and try to understand how it works rather than how you would like it to work.
-- Matthew Crawford

#Ideas #Trying #Attention

Out of the current confusion of ideals and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.
-- Matthew Crawford

#Careers #Confusion #Foundation

..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do 'em. And don't bullshit. I mean that's the thing about doin' that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.

All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide.

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

One must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not possible, however, to train oneself without guidance from the spiritual master.

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially, and the artifice must be introduced in so subtle a manner as to make it seem natural.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work