Information Anxiety 2
A source page for quotes linked to Richard Saul Wurman.
“I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.”
“The organization of information actually creates new information.”
“Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.”
“Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.”
“I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.”
“In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.”
“Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.”
“The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.”
“You only understand information relative to what you already understand.”
“What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?”
“People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."”