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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
Sculptor
Statistician
University Teacher
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Edward R. Tufte
Edward Rolfe Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte
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If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
Edward Tufte
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
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
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
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
Edward Tufte
Design cannot rescue failed content.
Edward Tufte
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
Edward Tufte
Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.
Edward Tufte
The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
Edward Tufte
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
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
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
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The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
Edward Tufte
In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not know your audience, it's respect your audience, and really know your content.
Edward Tufte
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
Edward Tufte
The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.
Edward Tufte
Simple design, intense content.
Edward Tufte
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
Great design is not democratic it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
Edward Tufte
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.
Edward Tufte
