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 best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

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

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.