Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Matthew Crawford

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Matthew Crawford.

Last updated on April 22, 2025.

Matthew B. Crawford is an American writer and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. Crawford majored in physics as an undergraduate, then turned to political philosophy. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is a contributing editor at The New Atlantis, and a motorcycle mechanic.

American - Writer | Born: 1965

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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

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

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

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

The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.

Matthew Crawford