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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.

Edward Tufte

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Edward Tufte
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 14
Computer Scientist
Graphic Designer
Political Scientist
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Statistician
University Teacher
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
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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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The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.
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The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
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Simple design, intense content.
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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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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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