"Small multiples, whether tabular or pictorial, move to the heart of visual reasoning - to see, distinguish, choose"
"We envision information in order to reason about, communicate, document, and preserve that knowledge-activities nearly always carried out on two-dimensional paper and computer screen. Escaping this flatland and enriching the density of data displays are the essential tasks of information design. Suc"
"It is all right to decorate construction but never construct decoration"
"1 + 1 = 3 or more, when two elements show themselves along with assorted incidental by-products of their partnership — occasionally a basis for pleasing aesthetic effects but always a continuing danger to data exhibits."
"We thrive in information-thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacities to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge, harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify, list, abstract, scan, look into, i"