Edward Tufte Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.”

“The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.”

“I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.”

“The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”