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The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
Edward Tufte
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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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What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
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The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
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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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A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
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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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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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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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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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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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The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
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