Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
Edward TufteAllowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
Edward TufteThe commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
Edward TufteThe idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
Edward Tufte