A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

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

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

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

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

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.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

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

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

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

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

The point of the essay is to change things.

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design not attributes of information.

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.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Design isnt crafting a beautiful textured button with breathtaking animation. Its figuring out if theres a way to get rid of the button altogether.

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

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

An open mind but not an empty head.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did.

If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

I don't have any friends and don't have any intention of making any. People will stab you in the back, mistreat you, talk about me behind your back, steal from you. And they're not really your friends. They're only there because you're a celebrity or because they want to get something from you.

I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.