“Most of the time for me, [inspiration] comes when I'm under the shower, when it's totally relax[ing], or walking in the mountains. And it hits you, because you're linking certain things or certain interests in your brain together, and you suddenly go like, ‘Wow, that would be very interesting to do some research in, or to develop,’ and then you just feel the adrenaline trying to rush through my body like, ‘Yes! This is what I wanna focus on for the next five years!’ and even without knowing why I want to do it, I want to do it.” - Ralph Nauta

“You can connect to it, even if you don't know what it is. You kind of understand that feeling, or you are also longing for that feeling. And very often in our work there is something almost meditative, very quiet, like with heavy technologies and difficult things to make, and then it looks so effortless. And that is very often what I think, that [what] we are making is what we are longing for.” - Lonneke Gordijn

“We spent a whole week in New York when we were presenting [Drifter] for the first time. We saw it for the first time in such a long time and we were just constantly thinking about it and wondering, ‘What does it mean?’ And talking to other people about it and you also learn from your own work. Because some things are just feelings and you don't really— can't really reason it yet. Sometimes you can only reason a work only years later.” - Lonneke Gordijn

“What is magic? Magic is something that's impossible. We try to make things that we think are impossible—we try to make it possible. So maybe it takes away the magic if you make something possible. But on the other hand..." - Lonneke Gordijn

"Technology comes from the idea of science fiction. Science fiction is in a sense, I mean it has a very strong link to fantasy, to magic. But I mean you just keep working towards that kind of magic and then at a certain point it becomes reality.” - Ralph Nauta