Bruce Mau Quotes
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.
When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters.
The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.
I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.
Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.
Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.
To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.
Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.
Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.
What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.
