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Edward Tufte Quotes

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.

Edward Tufte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: March 14, 1942

Topics

Nature Culture Language Information

We're a boring retail and commercial bank.

Ana Patricia Botin

Boring Bank Retail Commercial

It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

Tori Spelling

Snow Time Me Thought You Know

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot.

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Find Down I Can Horror Write Need

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments.

Ludwig Quidde

Life War Penny Dare Imagine Danger

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Louis Dudek

Work Religion Poetry Effort Thought

I'm not really sure what I'd like to see people doing more of online, but what I'd like to see less of is the warning signs that not ratifying net neutrality is gonna cause two separate nets: one that the big dogs can afford to be on and the other a ghetto internet that no one goes on. Think FM vs AM radio, or cable vs broadcast TV.

Drew Curtis

People Think Internet Doing Ghetto

I have nothing but respect for John Cena and his work rate. He's one of the hardest-working wrestlers there ever was. He's been a great champion, an inspiring role model. It's not easy being John Cena and carrying all the weight of the company on your back all the time.

Bret Hart

Work Respect Great Time Champion

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

Ashwin Sanghi

Age Book Reading Week Early Always

I want to do more films because if you do a lot of films, you become a better actor.

Allu Arjun

Better You Want Actor Become More

My bankers are very happy with me.

Prince

Happy Me Bankers Very

I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.

Sharon Stone

Life Age Time Lie Aging I Am

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

Tullian Tchividjian

Life Faith Improvement Victory Bible