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> [The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/the-journey-from-not-knowing-to-knowing-was-his-work-he-was-selling/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

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## More by Richard Saul Wurman

> [Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/physicist-isador-isaac-rabi-who-won-a-nobel-prize-for-inventing-a/)

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> [Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/allow-the-information-to-tell-you-how-it-wants-to-be-displayed-as/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

> [I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/i-live-by-two-credos-if-you-don-t-ask-you-don-t-get-and-most-things/)

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> [Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/everyone-spoke-of-an-information-overload-but-what-there-was-in-fact/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/information-anxiety-is-the-black-hole-between-data-and-knowledge-and/)

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> [A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/a-weekday-edition-of-the-new-york-times-contains-more-information/)

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> [People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/people-never-forget-things-they-just-never-remembered-it-in-the-first/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

> [I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/i-am-terribly-fascinated-with-things-that-i-don-t-understand/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/i-believe-i-m-very-normal-i-m-hyper-normal-i-m-more-normal-than/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

> [Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/order-is-no-guarantee-of-understanding-sometimes-just-the-opposite-is/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

> [The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/the-journey-from-not-knowing-to-knowing-was-his-work-he-was-selling/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

> [Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/learning-can-be-defined-as-the-process-of-remembering-what-you-are/)

[Richard Saul Wurman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-saul-wurman/)

> [You only understand information relative to what you already understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/you-only-understand-information-relative-to-what-you-already/)

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> [People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/people-can-be-motivated-to-creativity-simply-with-the-instruction-to/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-saul-wurman/the-fundamental-failure-of-most-graphic-product-architectural-and/)

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