#w

Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#jew #neither #nor #thank #thank god

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#like #love #powerpoint #you

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. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#believe #cognitive #deep #design #displays

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#because #been #i #idea #me

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

— Edward Tufte

#cognitive #i #i think #important #imposing

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 #chapter #evidence #great #i

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#engineer #father #governments #his #life

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

#cognitive #culture #gender #here #idea

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. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#comparison #difference #every #laws #nature

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#complex #fit #long #many #powerpoint