Charles Royer

“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, unless where you ought to go is a continuation of where you were going in the past. Creativity, originality, inventiveness, intuition, imagination—“unstuckness,” in other words—are completely outside its domain.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, instead, to be concerned with the question “What is best?,” a question which cuts deeply rather than broadly, a question whose answers tend to move the silt downstream.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“It’s an old split. Like the one between art and art history. One does it and the other talks about how it’s done and the talk about how it’s done never seems to match how one does it.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance