Allowing 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.

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

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

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Above all else show the data.