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

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

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The point of the essay is to change things.

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

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

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.

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.