Edward Tufte Quotes

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Edward Tufte

Profession : Educator

Birth : March 14, 1942

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

Edward Tufte

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

Edward Tufte

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

Edward Tufte

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

Edward Tufte

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

Edward Tufte

The point of the essay is to change things.

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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

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The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

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What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

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I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

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I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

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It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

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The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

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What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

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My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

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The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

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That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

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The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.

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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Edward Tufte