Edward Tufte Quotes

"The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art."
-Edward Tufte

"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

"The central claim of the book is that effective analytic designs entail turning thinking principles into seeing principles."
-Edward Tufte

"The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence."
-Edward Tufte

"If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint."
-Edward Tufte

"Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool."
-Edward Tufte

"There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide."
-Edward Tufte

"It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases."
-Edward Tufte