PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

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

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

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

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

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

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