Alberto Cairo Quotes

#1. The life of a visual communicator should be one of systematic and exciting intellectual chaos.

Alberto Cairo

#2. It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

R.L. Stine

#3. The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information, not reducing it.

Alberto Cairo

#4. The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac bush close by and then stopped on hearing our voices; the starry sky seemed to come down lower over our heads.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do.
But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.

Alberto Cairo

#7. 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

#8. Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely.

Jason Versey

#9. I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.

Erik Estrada

#10. Perception is a fantasy that coincides with reality. - Christ Firth, from Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

Alberto Cairo

#11. To live is a choice, to die is also a choice.

Alan A. Alexander

#12. visualization is not something that happens on a page or on a screen; it happens in the mind

Alberto Cairo

#13. 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

#14. graphics should not simplify messages. They should clarify them, highlight trends, uncover patterns, and reveal realities not visible before.

Alberto Cairo

#15. Sometimes, it is not you who finds good ideas when you are seeking them. Instead, good ideas find you in the most unexpected circumstances.

Alberto Cairo

#16. When you're being truly creative, time stands still, and you enter a dimension that can carry you beyond the ordinariness of everyday life.

Denise Linn

#17. A marriage made in heaven - or in my case, hell.

Ellen Schreiber

#18. I like long floaty clothes that don't restrict me, and I live in flat boots.

Willa Holland

#19. 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

#20. We need to realize that the promises that overflow our Bibles will overflow into our own lives only as we appropriate them through prayer.

Jim Cymbala

#21. It seems like everyone I know has very strong feelings about which boy is the best fit for Katniss, but also because the books themselves contain a commentary on the way audiences latch onto romance, even (and maybe especially) when lives are at
stake.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#22. It is in the combination of words and visuals that the magic of understanding often happens.

Alberto Cairo

#23. Ironically, the study of animal cognition not only raises the esteem in which we hold other species, but also teaches us not to overestimate our own mental complexity. We

Frans De Waal