Edward Tufte Quotes - Page 2

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• I have stared long enough at the glowing flat rectangles of computer screens. Let us give more time for doing things in the real world...plant a plant, walk the dogs, read a real book, go to the opera.

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  Dog, Real, Book

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• Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

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  Design, Standards, Democratic

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• PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

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  Style, Cartoon, Tools

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• The world is generally multivariate

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  World

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• PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

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  School, Simple, Play

  "PowerPoint Is Evil" by Edward Tufte, www.wired.com. September 1, 2003.

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• Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

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  Design, Details, Add

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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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  Beautiful, Life And Death, Important

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• Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

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  Beautiful, Practice, Design

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• The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

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  Discipline, Interesting, World

  "Edward Tufte Wants You to See Better". "Science Friday" with Flora Lichtman, www.npr.org. January 18, 2013.

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• The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.

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  Action, Common, Site

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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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  Ideas, Information, Computer

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• 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.

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  Nature, Law, Differences

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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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  Technology, Should, Harm

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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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  Truth, Mean, Method

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• The point of the essay is to change things.

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  Change, Things Change, Essays

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

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  Teaching, Hands, Hands On Experience

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• If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

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  Practice, Design, Firsts

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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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  Support, Kind, Ethical

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• The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

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  Nature, Thinking, Law

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• Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

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  Boredom, Audience, Decoration

  Edward R. Tufte (2003). “The cognitive style of PowerPoint”, Graphics Pr

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• If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Design

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• We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

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  Cost, Realizing, Process

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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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  Long, Topics, Slides

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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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  Thinking, Style, Important

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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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  Truth, Thinking, Intellectual

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