Peter Morville Quotes

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

Peter Morville

#2. Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

Noel DeJesus

#3. I talk about the three R's, that jobs equals three R's: Repeal Obamacare. Reform our tax-and-spend policies to make us the most competitive in the world. And relight America with American energy.

Keith Rothfus

#4. There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher

Robin S. Sharma

#5. 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.

Peter Morville

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

Peter Morville

#7. What we find changes who we become.

Peter Morville

#8. One of the things that amazes me about Twitter is the way it utterly eradicates artificial barriers to communication. Things like status, geopolitics and so on keep people from talking to one another. Those go away in Twitter. You see exchanges that would never happen anywhere else.

Dick Costolo

#9. I don't miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

Neil Gaiman

#10. 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.

Peter Morville

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

Peter Morville

#12. Angelique, my dear child, love is not what heals us. Love is what burns us. And in you the flame burns pure and hot.

Anne Golon

#13. There is a certain beauty and refinement that is often found in our world and it is expensive. It shouldn't necessarily be so. It is just the way our economic system is.

Frederick Lenz

#14. When you are not accepted, dare to be exceptional.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#15. It is my passion to direct movies.

Maiwenn

#16. The journey transforms the destination.

Peter Morville

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

Peter Morville

#18. 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.

Peter Morville

#19. Which is the more believable of the two, Moses or China?

Blaise Pascal

#20. 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.

Peter Morville

#21. In any moment of time, you have three paths to choose from. You stand for something, you stand against something, or you drop both, and walk with your inner truth.

Roshan Sharma

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

Peter Morville

#23. Business by no means forbids pleasures; on the contrary, they reciprocally season each other; and I will venture to affirm that noman enjoys either in perfection that does not join both.

Lord Chesterfield

#24. The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

Richard LaGravenese

#25. George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

Michael Hersch

#26. Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?
Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor

James Grady

#27. 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.

Peter Morville