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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
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Edward Tufte
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 14
Computer Scientist
Graphic Designer
Political Scientist
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Kansas City
Missouri
Edward R. Tufte
Edward Rolfe Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte
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There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.
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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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The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.
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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.
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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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Simple design, intense content.
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Design cannot rescue failed content.
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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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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 idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
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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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Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.
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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
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Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
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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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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 world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?
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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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