The most common definition [of the word information] is: "the action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowledge. This definition remained fairly constant until the years immediately following World War II, when it came in vogue to use 'information' as a technological term to define anything that was sent over an electric or mechanical channel. 'Information' became part of the vocabulary of the science of messages. And, suddenly, the appellation could be applied to something that didn't necessarily have to inform. This definition was extrapolated to general usage as something told or communicated, whether or not it made sense to the receiver. Now, the freedom engendered by such an amorphous definition has, as you might expect, encouraged its liberal deployment. It has become the single most important word of our decade, the suspense of our lives and our work. . Richard Saul Wurman
My mind is a lock pick always looking for another door to open. I often find those doors by exploring minds of others...
-
Hewitt E. Moore
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-
Oscar Wilde
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
-
T.S. Eliot
We rely on our education, on our judgment and our intuition to make decisions, but sometimes we find ourselves in the most dangerous scenario we can be in as individuals or as team, when we don’t know that we don’t know but we believe we...
-
Dragos Bratasanu
There are a thousand things to hear about, informationally, daily, but the thing that doesn't go away is the one to pay attention to.
-
Antonya Nelson
More Quotes By Richard Saul Wurman
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
The most common definition of [the word information] is: "the action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowledge. This definition remained fairly constant until the years immediately following World War II, when it came in...
The most common definition [of the word information] is: "the action of informing; formation or molding of the mind or character, training, instruction, teaching; communication of instructive knowledge. This definition remained fairly constant until the years immediately following World War II, when it came in...
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....
