When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it’s like not to understand. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
You only understand information relative to what you already understand. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity? — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
The organization of information actually creates new information. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
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… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
“I believe I’m very normal. I’m hyper-normal. I’m more normal than anyone else I know. I think my thoughts, my indulgences, my desires, my… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
You only understand information relative to what you already understand. — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative." — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
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… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share
