Information Anxiety 2 Quotes

“The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something”
― Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2

“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 pleasures may at first appear different, but that is only because they are more normal, not because they are more esoteric.

I believe I am bored when other people are bored, only faster. I am interested when others are interested, only more interested. But I also think I’m less, rather than more, intelligent than other people.

By indulging my interests through my life, and perhaps because of rather than despite many failures, I have been able to design my life.”
― Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2

“In recognition that any good idea is a fragile thing, you have to give it a few minutes to breath—like a good red wine.”
― Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2

“Perhaps the three principles closest to my heart--and the most radical--are learning to accept your ignorance, paying more attention to the question than to the answer, and never being afraid to go in an opposite direction to find a solution.”
― Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2