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I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being it's the design of speech it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood.

Richard Saul Wurman

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Richard Saul Wurman
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: March 26
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Philadelphia
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