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.

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

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

My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going to remember something unless you are interested in it. These words dance together. 'Interest' is another holy word and drives 'memory'. Combine them and you have learning.

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.

One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.

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