Some Thoughts on Quality

Full disclosure - these ideas are mostly pulled from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig.


Quality:  Goodness, worth, excellence 


Quality is undefinable.  But we know it when we see it.

A world without Quality would be much different than the one we see around us.  No art, music, flavor...

Quality is just what you like?  Instead: Quality is what you like.

Quality is the wedge between Classic and Romantic, Technological and Humanistic, thinking.

"People disagreed about Quality because some just used their immediate emotions whereas others applied their overall knowledge" 

Perhaps it is a combination.

Quality lies outside of mind or matter - it is a third stream.




Something else I've been thinking about lately comes from the Natural History Museum in NY:

TRUTH

KNOWLEDGE

VISION

They are the goals of all art.  And maybe more, all humanity.

I've been working on reducing language down to only most fundamental.