Quotes About Information

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

I see graphic design as the organization of information that is semantically correct, syntactically consistent and pragmatically understandable.

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

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

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

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

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

Pizza tastes better than broccoli and opinion tastes better than news.

Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Education is that human process of feeling your body mature, feeding your mind with ideas that it never had before, or information you never had. You simply cannot do that on a computer.

Education is civil defence against media fallout.