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“The point of the essay is to change things.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Things Change #Essays
“The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Discipline #Interesting #World
“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 - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Data #Confusion #Design
“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 the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Simple #Giving #Design
“Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'”
-- Edward Tufte

#Drug #Software #Company
“Design cannot rescue failed content.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Design #Rescue
“Simple design, intense content.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Simple #Design #Intense
“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.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Dog #Real #Book
“Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Thinking #Design #Made
“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Technology #Two #Users
“The most common user action on a Web site is to flee.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Action #Common #Site
“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 space.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Ideas #Numbers #Space
“Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Beautiful #Practice #Design
“Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Design #Standards #Democratic
“The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Design #Understanding #Essentials
“If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Numbers #Statistics #Boring
“If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Color #Relevant
“The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Technology #Should #Harm
“PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.”
-- Edward Tufte

#School #Simple #Play
“A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Design #Maps #Information
“Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Design #Details #Maps
“The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.”
-- Edward Tufte

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

#Ideas #Long #Forever
“The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?”
-- Edward Tufte

#World #Paper #Measurement
“What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Truth #Mean #Method
“An open mind but not an empty head.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Mind #Open Mind #Empty
“Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Years #Making Changes #Discussion
“The world is generally multivariate”
-- Edward Tufte

#World
“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.”
-- Edward Tufte

#Beautiful #Writing #Thinking
“If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,”
-- Edward Tufte

#Letters #Helping #Truthful

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