Edward Tufte Quotes

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• Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
• There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.
• 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…
• Simple design, intense content.
• If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
• The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime
• We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
• What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather…
• There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
• Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
• 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.
• If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
• Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest…
• Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.
• A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
• A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
• Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
• I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
• My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
• I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

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