Edward R. Tufte Quotes
Design cannot rescue failed content.

-Edward R. Tufte
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What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of desig . . . Read more

-Edward R. Tufte
Above all else show the data.

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If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

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PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

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Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

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Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

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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 R. Tufte
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