42 Quotes by Matthew Stewart

I'd like the United States to become what it was always meant to be, which is a secular nation - more publicly committed to reason, to improving understanding, and promoting education.

Businesspeople get a little bit of bad press sometimes. There are a lot of normal and ethical people.

For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify the rhetoric, and then repeat and amplify it ad nauseam through the client's rank and file.

Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in 'worlds' just like our own.

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

Most management systems have to do with establishing trust and getting people to cooperate. They're not really about expertise or science.

Whoever pays the consultant gets pretty much what they want to hear.