Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

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

Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.

If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.

The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

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

The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.

She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue. Butno , she had to be nine-letter Elizabeth.

Young children were always so important to me. Adults should treat children with more respect. We should put more monies in our schools. I grew up on that side of the coin.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.