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

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

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

Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true.

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.

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 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.