PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

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

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

Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

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.

The world is generally multivariate

Simple design, intense content.