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.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

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.

Simple design, intense content.

The point of the essay is to change things.

The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

Above all else show the data.