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

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Source : Richard Saul Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume (2001). “Information Anxiety 2”, Que Pub

Richard Saul Wurman

#Order Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.”
“It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.”
“You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.”

Source : "Open Secrets". Book by Alice Munro, 1994.
“I first picked up a violin aged five - I just assumed everyone played.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.”

Source : "In Search of the Miraculous: Fragments of an Unknown Teaching". Book by P.D. Ouspensky, 1949.
“Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and Godâ€™s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.”
“A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.”
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.”

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