Peter Morville Quotes

#1. Each way of organizing has strengths and weaknesses. Taxonomy affords a view from the top, facets help us muddle through the middle, and tags build bridges at the bottom.

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#2. Figure 1-3. The User Experience Honeycomb. Along

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#3. Time when learning how to learn (and unlearn) is central to success. Instead of hiding from change, let's embrace it. Each time we try something new, we get better at getting better. Experience builds competence and confidence, so we're ready for the big changes, like re-thinking what we do.

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#4. Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.

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#5. Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can't use what you can't find.

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#6. The journey transforms the destination.

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#7. Between perfect vision and total blindness lies all the truth we know.

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#8. The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

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#9. My ability to help my clients was limited by our narrow focus. This was partly my fault for defining myself as a specialist, but I eventually came to see that this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture.

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#10. What we find changes who we become.

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#11. We must go from boxes to arrows. Tomorrow belongs to those who connect.

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#12. Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.

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