Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

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

If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.

Above all else show the data.

The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

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