For me, sensibility is the location of talent. Sensibility comes first because only with the right kind of sensibility is talent useful. I've met many people who are extraordinarily talented but have no capacity to go outside of themselves or their field. I love those people, but they would not succeed in our culture.

Bruce Mau

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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.

outcomes want may

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

work time children

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 are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

growth change inspirational

The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different que... by Bruce Mau

The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.

wrong-answers different answers

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.

fun beautiful children

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or fo... by Bruce Mau

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

connected matter

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better plac... by Bruce Mau

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

design fundamentals ideas

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.

working-it study answers

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.

design outcomes appearance

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

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

invisible design failing

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the d... by Bruce Mau

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

massive-change design world

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.

liberty order needs

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

moments two interesting

Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning th... by Bruce Mau

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

tonight morning might

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.

yield unique simple

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

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

being-cool conservative black

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.

design shy trying

Design the life that you want to live. by Bruce Mau

Design the life that you want to live.

design want

Now that we can do anything what will we do? by Bruce Mau

Now that we can do anything what will we do?

can-do

Forget about good. by Bruce Mau

Forget about good.

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