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

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

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

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

The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that.

Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.

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.

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

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.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

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

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.