This is a short essay I wrote in 1999, using some pieces of the book as a departure point for thinking about technology (and just thinking in general).
Here's a couple of snips -
Pirsig talks about the Buddha or Godhead residing as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or gears of a motorcycle as on the top of mountains or petals of a flower.
Robert talks about Poincare's supposition that given an infinite amount of time a scientist could come up with an infinite number of hypotheses to describe some thing. He says this is the idea that Phaedrus raised in the laboratory that got him failed out of school. Robert then says Poincare lays down some rules that help scientist's from seeing too much. There is a hierarchy of facts to choose from. More general facts are good. Simple facts are good.
The book is an interesting read. A story about a man's journey through life using motorcycle maintenance as a metaphor. It covers a lot of territory - mental illness, quality, technology, classicism, romanticism, various philosophies and of course some Zen.
Depending on where you are in your journey it may be worth having a look at.
