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.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

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

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

There is no brightness without darkness. There is no body without its shadow.

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.

Anybody who helps the poor is delighted.

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.