Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.