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Architect

Richard Saul Wurman is a renowned architect, born on March 26, 1935. His career spans across various fields including urban planning, architectural design, and education. Wurman is known for his innovative design philosophy and in-depth research on information architecture.

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“The organization of information actually creates new information.”

Information Organization New Information

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 know.”

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“One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.”

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“We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information that is given to us is given to us in a linear manner ... we are taught to communicate in a way that is actually constricting our ability to think.”

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Book:Information Anxiety

Source: Information Anxiety

“Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.”

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Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“You only understand information relative to what you already understand.”

Information Relative

Book:Information Anxiety 2

Source: Information Anxiety 2

“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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Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“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 is based on understanding.”

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Author:Richard Saul Wurman

About the Author

Born: March 26, 1935
Known for: Architect
Quotes: 29

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