Quotes from Bruce Mau

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

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.

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.

Design the life that you want to live.

I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.

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.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day." -Bruce Mau.

Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

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.

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.

The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value

Don't be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.