“This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that’s what it is. Blind” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Technology is blamed for a lot of this loneliness, since the loneliness is certainly associated with the newer technological devices—TV, jets, freeways… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The nature of our culture is such that if you were to look for instruction in how to do any of these… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“It’s not the technology that’s scary. It’s what it does to the relations between people,” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The ideas, the things I was saying about science and ghosts, and even that idea this afternoon about caring and technology—they are… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The way to solve the conflict between human values and technological needs is not to run away from technology. That’s impossible. The… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“And from time to time you find your “county road” takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I suppose philosophy is historically not a woman's game, though that is changing. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Of the value traps, the most widespread and pernicious is value rigidity. This is an inability to revalue what one sees because of commitment… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“What’s emerging from the pattern of my own life is the for belief that the crisis is being caused by the inadequacy of existing… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
