“ I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower… ”
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“ Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is. ”
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“ That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. ”
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“ Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance. ”
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“ That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. ”
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“ Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20/20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. ”
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“ Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20/20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. ”
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“ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
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“ The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
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“ Flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha — which is to demean oneself. ”
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“ Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. ”
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“ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
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“ It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling. ”
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“ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
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“ The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. ”
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“ Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. ”
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“ It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest. ”
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“ Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality. ”
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“ It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you just do it. ”
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“ Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. ”
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“ Flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha — which is to demean oneself. ”
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“ The solutions all are simple — after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. ”
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“ Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. ”
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