US "novelist, writer".
"He is best known for "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," 1974."
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."
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.
"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."
"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."
"That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface."