"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."

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Source : Bruce Mau, Jennifer Leonard, Institute without Boundaries (2004). “Massive change”, Phaidon Press

Bruce Mau

#Support Quotes #Invisible Quotes #Infrastructure Quotes

“So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.”
“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”
“To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.”
“No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.”
“Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.”
“Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.”
“When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.”
“The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.”

Source : "As Economy Limps Along, Obama Touts Efforts Ahead of Crucial Midterm Elections". www.foxnews.com. September 4, 2010.

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