By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.

If you want to visualize something in its fullness you have to look at every perspective and every angle, and that means - sometimes uncomfortably - looking at things you don't want to look at.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

It's enjoyable to just drink in an image. It's effortless. That struck me as an interesting way of looking at it: I do all the grunt work so you can enjoy.

I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction of the narrative.

I'm happy to provide that service. But that's the power of it. A good infographic that's been really worked on looks simple and easy, but it actually required a lot of processing.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

Sometimes the data has a sense of a structure within it, especially if I'm looking at networks or relationships, which generally lend themselves to a certain style.

In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing...

Religion teaches us to fight against our natural instincts but it thrives on them

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

That a man can change himself…and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.”(Christian D. Larson)

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.