Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.
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.
My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.
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.
Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century
You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.