Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.

There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask that question is to look in the wrong direction, for the Buddha is everywhere. But just as obviously to ask the question is to look in the right direction, for the Buddha is everwhere.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.