Haowei Ruan

a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention

it’s no good translating massive source code into an equally massive visualization

i don't want to read it, i want to see it

SoftVis - %u201CIf this new discipline of visualization is to realize its full potential, however, it will also have to borrow from those areas traditionally concerned with imagery such as art history and perceptual and cognitive psychology. The field of visualization should not be so absorbed by the miracles that are its technical basis that it ignores a larger interest in the way in which images can be used to enhance the power of our thinking.%u201D

Inventor's Paradox - The solution to a general problem is simpler than a solution to a specific problem, the solution of many problem is simpler than the solution to one problem.

looking isn't always seeing