Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

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.

What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.

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

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.

The point of the essay is to change things.

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.