The Functional Art Quotes

“graphics should not simplify messages. They should clarify them, highlight trends, uncover patterns, and reveal realities not visible before.”
― Alberto Cairo, Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

“between the beginning of time and 2003, humanity generated roughly five exabytes of data, whereas we now produce the same volume of bits every two days.”
― Alberto Cairo, Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

“visualization is not something that happens on a page or on a screen; it happens in the mind”
― Alberto Cairo, Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

“The life of a visual communicator should be one of systematic and exciting intellectual chaos.”
― Alberto Cairo, The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

“When you can admit that you don’t know, you are more likely to ask the questions that will enable you to learn. —Richard Saul Wurman, from Information Anxiety 2”
― Alberto Cairo, Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

“A data visualization should only be beautiful when beauty can promote understanding in some way without undermining it in another. Is beauty sometimes useful? Certainly. Is beauty always useful? Certainly not.”
― Alberto Cairo, Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

“Visual Thinking”
― Alberto Cairo, Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

“Perception is a fantasy that coincides with reality. —Christ Firth, from Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World”
― Alberto Cairo, Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization