The point of the essay is to change things.

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.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.