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

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

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

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.