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.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.

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

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

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime