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Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
Edward Tufte
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Edward Tufte
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 14
Computer Scientist
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Kansas City
Missouri
Edward R. Tufte
Edward Rolfe Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte
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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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There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
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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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We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
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Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.
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I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
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I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
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The world is generally multivariate
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The point of the essay is to change things.
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Simple design, intense content.
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Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
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Design cannot rescue failed content.
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Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
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The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.
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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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Great design is not democratic it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
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Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.
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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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The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
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