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Back to basics
18 Jan 2005 by Jason Fried
From time to time, when things get complex, I go back to Taxi Driver Wisdom for a good dose of common sense and clarity. Some of my recent favorites:
On being fickle: The things you love are as stupid as the things you hate and are easily interchangable.
On humility: If you’re a smart person, you can see what’s smart about the next guy. If you’re secretly afraid you’re a moron, okay, then to you everybody’s a moron.
On out-of-the-tunnel vision: I see more of what is going on around me because I am not concerned with finding a parking place.
On culpability: Democracy is only because everyone wants others to share the blame.
On 20/20 vision: As soon as you meet someone, you know the reasons why you will leave them.
On high blood pressure: Everything comes out the same, no matter whether you make it hard on yourself or not.
On temporal pleasures: I enjoy fireworks, but stars is nice too.
On alternate routes: Everybody go different way to see the same thing.
On his new cab with driver-side airbags: I’m for better always. I’m for future.
Older and wiser: Old people, they like to get to the airport early.
On identity crisis: Whatever you become, someone will long for what you were.
On checking yourself out in rearview mirrors: If your driver have nothing interesting to say to you, maybe because you have nothing interesting to say to him.
Go buy the book.
8 comments so far (Post a Comment)
18 Jan 2005 | Ben Saunders said...
'Im for better always. Im for future.' Wow. That line has just set me up for the entire day.
I experienced a bit of taxi driver wisdom myself in NYC last year. Splendid stuff...
18 Jan 2005 | JB said...
If youre secretly afraid youre a moron, okay, then to you everybodys a moron.
This is so piercing that I think I'm going to go curl up in a ball and sob quietly now.
18 Jan 2005 | Bob H. said...
"If youre secretly afraid youre a moron, okay, then to you everybodys a moron."
This is true for everybody but me. ;)
18 Jan 2005 | Web Design Dustin said...
Taxi cab wisdom lol. Brings me back to my days in New York as well!!!!
Web Design Dustin
Web Design Company Jacksonville Florida
19 Jan 2005 | Ryan Mahoney said...
Web Design Dustin... no need to put a link to your site in your comment... when you post a comment your name becomes a link to your URL. When you do this, It comes off looking a lot like comment-spam, and I'm sure you don't want to appear so desperate ;)
19 Jan 2005 | jean zaque said...
second JB (sniff)
