Robert M. Pirsig

The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.