“Luxury is the opportunity to experience quality, be it a place, a person or an object.”

1990s

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
Context: Technology is blamed for a lot of this loneliness, since the loneliness is certainly associated with the newer technological devices—TV, jets, freeways and so on—but I hope it's been made plain that the real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil. That's why I went to so much trouble to show how technology could be used to destroy the evil. A person who knows how to fix motorcycles—with Quality—is less likely to run short of friends than one who doesn't. And they aren't going to see him as some kind of object either. Quality destroys objectivity every time.

Fintan O'Toole, "A Life and Legacy". Irish Times, 14th June 2006.
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Interviewed by J. T. LeRoy, "Strange Innocence," Vanity Fair, July 2001

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

Introducing the first broadcast of "This is the News" (September 1947)

As quoted in Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1984), by William A. DeGregorio, pp. 19–20

Attributed to Charles Eames in: Georgia Bizios (1998) Architecture Reading Lists and Course Outlines. p. 494