All Richard Saul Wurman Quotes
- 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… Architectural
- In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. Answer
- Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction. Accept
- Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in… Any
- Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in. Defined
- Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. Everyone
- The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something Able
- People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring Boring
- The key to making things understandable is to understand what it’s like not to understand. Funny
- 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… All
- You only understand information relative to what you already understand. Already Understand
- My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your… All
- When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway. Choice
- What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity? Allow
- 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… Across
- Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation… Allow
- People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative." Creative
- 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… Ask
- I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand. Don T
- The organization of information actually creates new information. Actually Creates