Peter Morville quotes

“The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.”
-- Peter Morville

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“Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.”
-- Peter Morville

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“What we find changes who we become.”
-- Peter Morville

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“Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.”
-- Peter Morville

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“We can glimpse what lies ahead in the eyes of a child through the lens of a Treo. A brilliant intertwingling of atoms, bits, push, social, semantic, mind, and body, where what we find changes who we become.”
-- Peter Morville

Source : "Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become". Book by Peter Morville, 2005.

#Finding Love Quotes

“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”

“Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.”

“I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.”

“Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.”

“It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.”

“Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.”

“Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.”

“I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.”