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A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
Edward Tufte
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Edward Tufte
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 14
Computer Scientist
Graphic Designer
Political Scientist
Sculptor
Statistician
University Teacher
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Edward R. Tufte
Edward Rolfe Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
Edward Tufte
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
Edward Tufte
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
Edward Tufte
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
Edward Tufte
Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.
Edward Tufte
The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.
Edward Tufte
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
Edward Tufte
The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
Edward Tufte
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
Edward Tufte
The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
Edward Tufte
We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
Edward Tufte
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
Edward Tufte
Simple design, intense content.
Edward Tufte
The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.
Edward Tufte
Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
Edward Tufte
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.
Edward Tufte
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.
Edward Tufte
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
Edward Tufte
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
Edward Tufte
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.
Edward Tufte
