Calvin Mooers

"People will resist information unless the price of not knowing it greatly exceeds the price of learning it."

"The requirements of information retrieval, of finding information whose location or very existence is a priori unknown."

"Information retrieval is the name for the process or method whereby a prospective user of information is able to convert his need for information into an actual list of citations to documents in stora…"

"The problem of directing a user to stored information, some of which may be unknown to him, is the problem of "information retrieval"… In information retrieval, the addressee or receiver rather than t…"

"An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it... Where an information retrieval sy…"