Robert M. Pirsig Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Technology, Giving, Mind

• The way to solve the conflict between human values and technology needs is not to run away from technology. That's impossible. The way to resolve the conflict is to break down the barriers of dualistic thought that prevent a real understanding of what technology is--not an exploitation of nature, but a fusion of nature and the human spirit into a new kind of creation that transcends both.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Real, Technology

• 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.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Art, Creativity, Technology

  NPR Interview, 1974.

• What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Heart, Technology

• If you run from technology, it will chase you.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Technology, Ifs

• The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Lying, Real, Technology

• There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Technology, Evil, Tendencies

• The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Lonely, Attitude, Real

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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