Quotes About Clarity

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Above all else show the data.

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.

To clarify, *add* data.

You never know in life. Sometimes people can mean what they say.

Let alone, without the help of or hot cognition, cold cognition is simply paralyzed by choice.

Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

If he [Pound] is not careful he will take to meaning what he says instead of saying what he means.

The moment we recognize an illusion as illusion, it ceases to be illusion and becomes an expression or aspect of reality and experience.

Yet I think he was not wholly the loser by being unable to think. The eye untroubled by thought sees things like a mirror newly burnished; at night, for example, the musing can see nothing before him but a mist, but if he stops thinking quickly the roads, the walls, the trees become visible. (pp217)

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

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

Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.

We shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

Peace without knowledge of the cause of that peace is still ignorance.

I knew that some day I would find out what was wrong and I would stop being wrong.

When you want to get out, get out.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves.

I sat alone in that stupid forest asking God to tell me what to do.