Some quotes from a guy who went mad thinking about quality. In short, you don&#x27;t want to stop talking about quality but learn how to move toward it. And no, quality is not a boolean value nor does it have to create fears of judgment. These are just effects of striving for idealism.<p>“Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who’s bound to have some characteristic of quality.”<p>― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values<p>“You’ve got to live right, too. It’s the way you live that predisposes you to avoid the traps and see the right facts. You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It’s easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally. That’s the way all the experts do it. The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn’t separate from the rest of your existence. If you’re a sloppy thinker the six days of the week you aren’t working on your machine, what trap avoidance, what gimmicks, can make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together ... The real cycle you&#x27;re working in is a cycle called yourself. The machine that appears to be &quot;out there&quot; and the person that appears to be &quot;in here&quot; are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from Quality together.”<p>― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values