Noun
The act retrieving.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMemory is fallible... not because of storage limitations so much as retrieval limitations. Daniel Levitin
Life, like war, is a series of mistakes; and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that; but he is the best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes; organize victory out of mistakes. Frederick William Robertson
In the face of almost infinite useful knowledge, we have adopted the strategy of "information regeneration rather than information retrieval." ...most importantly, you should be able to generate the result you need even if no one has ever done it before you. Richard Hamming
The crux of the retrieval problem is that selecting documents to read grows ever more difficult, and new techniques are continually needed. Brian Campbell Vickery
Varied views were put forward as to the content and priorities of information science, though there was general agreement that its central topics should be information organisation, dissemination and retrieval. Brian Campbell Vickery
Information retrieval is now an accepted part of the new discipline of information science and technology... I have concentrated on the field with which I am most familiar, the problems of bibliographic description and subject analysis. Brian Campbell Vickery