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.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

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.

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

Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.