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.

If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.

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

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

Above all else show the data.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.