Wurman Quotes

#1. When you can admit that you don't know, you are more likely to ask the questions that will enable you to learn. - Richard Saul Wurman, from Information Anxiety 2

Alberto Cairo

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

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#4. I don't want to forget any of this. The way he's looking at me at this very moment. How, when he kisses me, I still get shivers down my back, every time. I want to hold on to everything so tight.

Jenny Han

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

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#7. 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.

Richard Saul Wurman

#8. The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#10. Cross my heart and get no pie.

Shannon Stacey

#11. 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.

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#13. When Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple computer in a garage in Palo Alto, it heralded the beginning of the PC revolution that ultimately dealt a death-blow to dozens of older companies.

Eric Ries

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#15. 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.

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#17. 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.

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#20. [Happily broken] arms unlocked. Eyes wide open.
Eager. Torn apart. Heart explosive.
Fingers composing [Happily broken].
Come in, come in. I am ready. I am open.
Happy to be open [Happily broken].

Coco J. Ginger

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

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#23. People voted with their hearts as they were remembering the father.

Emile Lahoud

#24. She didn't want to go out into a world where he didn't exist. So she watched the light shift and change, and let the world pass by without her.

Sarah J. Maas

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#26. It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

Christopher Buckley

#27. My father worked in a post office and never made probably more than $8,000 a year as an employee of the post office, so when people can rise up from very modest circumstances and do well economically, I think that's a good thing about America, and we should encourage that kind of activity.

David Rubenstein

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

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman

#32. 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.

Richard Saul Wurman

#33. If you're good at it, you can win.

Dawn Fraser

#34. 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

Richard Saul Wurman

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

Richard Saul Wurman