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

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

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

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.

You only understand information relative to what you already understand.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

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

The organization of information actually creates new information.

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

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

I am terribly fascinated with things that I don’t understand.

The guaranteed cure for heartbreak: find pain that’s much, much worse.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

I expect to win out there.

Sometimes if you want to know for sure whether the stove is hot, the only way to find out is to touch it.

The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.