"But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can't by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty i… - Robert M. Pirsig

"But technology is simply the making of things and the making of things can't by its own nature be ugly or there would be no possibility for beauty in the arts, which also include the making of things. Actually a root word of technology, techne, originally meant "art." The ancient Greeks never separated art from manufacture in their minds, and so never developed separate words for them."