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I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
Edward Tufte
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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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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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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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The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
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The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
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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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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
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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 understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
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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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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.
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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.
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