"A weekday edition of The New York Times……" — Richard Saul Wurman
"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"
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20 Quotes by Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman has 20 quotes on this site.
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The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of…
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In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
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Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
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Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure…
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Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.
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Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
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The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
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People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring
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The key to making things understandable is to understand what it’s like not to understand.
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If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to…
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You only understand information relative to what you already understand.
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My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't…
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
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