The ultimate test's always your own serenity. If you don't have this when you start and maintain it while you're working you're likely to build your personal problems right into the machine itself.

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

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.