Writing it seemed to have higher quality than not writing it, that was all.
— Robert M. Pirsig
The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that is, "quality free," has got to go.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Quality is the Buddha.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Quality isn't a thing. It is an event. — Robert M. Pirsig
Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness. — Robert M. Pirsig
Quality tends to fan out like waves. — Robert M. Pirsig
If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged. — Robert M. Pirsig
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. — Robert M. Pirsig
Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality. — Robert M. Pirsig
My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all. — Robert M. Pirsig
