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

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.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

It's a lot easier to tell the truth usually.

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

There is a contest old as Eden, which still goes on - the conflict between right and wrong, between error and truth. In this conflict every human being has a part.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.