Quotes About Mau

#1. Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world."
"Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad your date is an Egyptian Mau on a hunger strike."
The au pair sighed. "Better than an eleven-year-old with a big mouth.

Gordon Korman

#2. I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should

Terry Pratchett

#3. Design the life that you want to live.

Bruce Mau

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

Bruce Mau

#5. If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

Ernst T. Krebs

#6. When I was a kid, I always had a big thing for Dannii Minogue. Initially I liked Kylie, but I quickly moved on to Dannii. There was always something more alluring about her. I think I actually wrote to her asking if we could meet.

Andrew Buchan

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

Bruce Mau

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

Bruce Mau

#9. 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.

Bruce Mau

#10. If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.

Mau Piailug

#11. To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.

Mau Piailug

#12. 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

#13. 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.

Bruce Mau

#14. Now that we can do anything what will we do?

Bruce Mau

#15. 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

#16. 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.

Bruce Mau

#17. The Angelic Doctor himself is not certain that the astronomical theories of his own time explain the heavens and the movements of the sun and the stars

Fulton J. Sheen

#18. 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

#19. We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.

Selena

#20. 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

#21. To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.

Mau Piailug

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

Bruce Mau

#23. France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.

Jacques Chirac

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

Bruce Mau

#25. 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

#26. I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Bruce Mau

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

Bruce Mau

#29. If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.

Vance Havner

#30. I look in the mirror and I don't see a sex symbol. I just see a guy who looks like he's been beaten with a baseball bat. I mean, is this the face of a sex symbol? They say that because I work in the movies.

Javier Bardem

#31. 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

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

Bruce Mau

#33. 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