21 Quotes by Bruce Mau

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.