Richard Saul Wurman Quotes

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

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#2. Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.

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#3. People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

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#4. One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

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#5. The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like not to understand.

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#6. I am terribly fascinated with things that I don't understand.

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#7. What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

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#8. In recognition that any good idea is a fragile thing, you have to give it a few minutes to breath - like a good red wine.

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#9. A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

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#10. I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

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#11. Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

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

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#13. The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

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#14. In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

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#15. 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.

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#16. The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

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#17. Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

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#18. The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

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

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#20. You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

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#21. 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.

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#22. We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

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#23. If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand.' It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

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#24. The organization of information actually creates new information.

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