“Information visualisation is about to go mainstream. While it may not be the killer application some expect, ‘infoviz’ is going to help users to manipulate data in wholly new ways.” (The Economist) – courtesy of nooface

“Presentations are becoming increasingly visual and less textual. Converting every concept into an image is the challenge and, at the same time, the solution.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“(…) dedicated to John W. Tukey, who taught us all that seeing may be believing or disbelieving, but above all, data analysis involves visual, as well as statistical, understanding.” (Michael Friendly)

“Social interaction provides us with visual patterns that help us to situate ourselves in our environment. In Internet, however, this doesnít happen so easily. Some visualisations are appearing to remedy the problem.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“The 20th century has seen many advances in different fields. Visualisation hasn’t been immune to these changes that paved the way to its transformation into Information Visualisation in the two decades that preceded the new millennium.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“The history of visualisation is that of the search for new artefacts to amplify the ability to know; it’s the history of writing and of maps, the history of knowledge.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“A graphic is not always the most illustrative element. Written sentences, tables and graphics occupy their own place in the discourse of building clarity and insight.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“Some of the factors that I hope to illustrate are aspects of depth perception, color perception, and form perception.” (John H. Krantz)

“The goal of scientific visualization is to enhance scientific productivity by utilizing human visual perception and computer graphics techniques.” (HPSC Group of the University of Colorado)

“Visualising the structure of the raw text of a document helps greatly in its analysis and compliments techniques like computational linguistics by using the pattern finding capability of the human brain.” (Juan C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis!)

“The use of Visual Metaphors is one of the most common ways of elaborating interfaces and visual representations. However, not all the developers think the same way.” (J.C. Dürsteler – Inf@Vis: The digital magazine of InfoVis.net)

“(…) a central repository for information pertaining to the investigation of reasoning with visual representations.” (Michael Anderson – University of Hartford, CT, USA)

“(…) a visual environment for browsing and authoring RDF models represented as graphs.” (W3C)

An illustrated chronology of innovations (Michael Friendly & Daniel J. Denis) – courtesy of cliff atkinson

“Visually navigating through a network is inherently a dynamic process, and steps need to be taken to keep the user feeling oriented and in control.” (Alex Shapiro) – courtesy of nooface

“(…) recent concepts of visualization of abstract information contained in document databases.” (Rolf Daessler)

A Collection of Visualizations (Rika Furuhata – Fujishiro Ichikawa Lab)

“(…) we have to understand how to combine visually appealing designs with effective designs” (Juan C. Dürsteler – InfoVis.net)

“Creating Effective Web Pages” (Redish & Associates, Inc.)

“A true science of data visualizations requires both a theory of perception and of computer graphics” (Marc Green)