If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

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

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.