Emil Ruder Quotes

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Emil Ruder

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• I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
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• TweetDeck is a very interesting client, because it presents a view that no other client in the world presents, which is this multicolumn, massive amounts of information in one pane. And people really, really enjoy that.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying Kiswahili. I was working on the dialect. I was studying every documentary and tape of him that I could find - not just visual, but also audiocassettes, even in other languages when he was speaking in other dialects.

  

  Forest Whitaker
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• I really don't have the time to spend much time online, I do have web tv, which I use when I need information.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
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• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.

  

  Nathan Hale
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• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
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• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
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• There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Business
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• I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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  • Risk
  • Information

• Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Brain
  • Deep
  • Information

• When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Voice

• Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mind
  • Like
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• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
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• I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Friends
  • Die
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• Incredible that liberals aren't more concerned about the monopoly of information in South Dakota.

  

  Laura Ingraham
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• Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

  

  Rachel Maddow
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• The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.

  

  C. P. Scott
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• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
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• It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Back

• I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm.

  

  Nicholas Haslam
  • Think
  • Charm

• Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

  

  Emil Ruder
  • Information
  • Duty
  • Argument