Richard Saul Wurman Professions : Architect Born : March 26, 1935 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by Richard Saul Wurman If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand.' It is at that moment that you can make something understandable. Richard Saul Wurman care taken way In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question. Richard Saul Wurman good-questions asking-questions school 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. Richard Saul Wurman information body thinking Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. Richard Saul Wurman library information facts What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity? Richard Saul Wurman familiarity situation disease People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative." Richard Saul Wurman creativity creative people Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true. Richard Saul Wurman understanding opposites order When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway. Richard Saul Wurman choices want The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject. Richard Saul Wurman knowing journey desire Similar Authors Ben van Berkel architect Bruno Zevi architect Bruno Freschi architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin architect Arthur Erickson architect Arne Jacobsen architect All Authors