American - Educator | March 14, 1942 -
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
Edward Tufte
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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.
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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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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
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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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Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
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A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
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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 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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The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
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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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