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24 quotes by Edward Tufte

Edward Rolf Tufte (/ˈtʌfti/; born 1942) is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.
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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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The point of the essay is to change things.

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If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

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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... →

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There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

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What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

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A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

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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 leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

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The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

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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... →

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A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

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