Quotes by Richard Saul Wurman

Richard Saul Wurman

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Facts

Information

Library

I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It’s about the design of how you talk to another human being; it’s the design of speech; it’s the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.

Design

Essence

Understanding

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn’t tell us what we want or need to know.

Anxiety

Black

Data

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word ‘question’ is ‘quest’. Most of us don’t have a quest in our life.

Know How

Quests

Roots

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn’t designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It’s by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.

Book

Creativity

Museums

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

Opposites

Order

Understanding

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

Firsts

Never Forget

People

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. “Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?” she would say.

Home

Mother

Success

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don’t understand something

Acceptance

Attitude

Inspirational

The organization of information actually creates new information.

Information

New Information

Organization

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Disease

Essence

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Information

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Opposites

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People

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Relative

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Want

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Quotes by Richard Saul Wurman

Richard Saul Wurman

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn’t tell us what we want or need to know.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word ‘question’ is ‘quest’. Most of us don’t have a quest in our life.

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don’t understand something

The organization of information actually creates new information.

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