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.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

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