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

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

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."