Bruce Mau famous quotes

04-05-2025

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

#Children #Yesterday #Entrepreneur
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.
-- Bruce Mau

#Different #Answers
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
-- Bruce Mau

#Growth #Events #Different
Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. 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

#Beautiful #Children #Fun
Imitate. Donâ€™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.
-- Bruce Mau

#Trying #Shy #Might
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.
-- Bruce Mau

#May #Want #Outcomes
The word â€˜studioâ€™ is derives from â€˜studyâ€™. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. Itâ€™s to know them after we do it.
-- Bruce Mau

#Answers #Study #Working It
I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.
-- Bruce Mau

#Two #Interesting #Moments
The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.
-- Bruce Mau

#Ideas #Design #Fundamentals
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.
-- Bruce Mau

#Design #Outcomes #Appearance
For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails
-- Bruce Mau

#Design #Failing #Invisible
Donâ€™t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.
-- Bruce Mau

#Black #Conservative #Being Cool
Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.
-- Bruce Mau

#Design #World
The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value
-- Bruce Mau

#Design #Deeper #Values
Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.
-- Bruce Mau

#Unique #Simple #Yield
Now that we can do anything what will we do?
-- Bruce Mau
Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.
-- Bruce Mau

#Morning #Tonight #Might
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.
-- Bruce Mau

#Support #Invisible #Infrastructure
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.
-- Bruce Mau

#Inspirational #Real #Long

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