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All Quotes by author - Edward Tufte
" A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity. "
Become
Celebrity
Curious
" A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences. "
Hands-On
Practical
Part
" Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design. "
Practice
Beautiful
Design
" I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist. "
I Am
Moral
Intellectual
" 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. "
Design
Believe
Understand
" If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. "
Computers
You
PowerPoint
" 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. "
Intellectual
Truth
Hope
" I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. "
Style
Important
Software
" It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that. "
Responsible
Support
Me
" 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. "
Leader
Up
Writing
" My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. "
Father
Life
Public
" My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided. "
Culture
Here
Language
" Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year. "
Changes
Year
Public
" That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. "
Comparison
Nature
Difference
" The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. "
Science
Art
See
" The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime. "
Tools
Will
Students
" The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now. "
Now
Trying
Work
" The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art. "
Art
Edge
Evidence
" The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. "
Display
Should
Harm
" The point of the essay is to change things. "
Things
Point
Change
" There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide. "
True
Slide
Many
" The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws. "
Nature
Thinking
Cognitive
" 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. "
Goals
Going
Narrative
" What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation. "
Get
Presentation
New
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