Edward Tufte Quotes

A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

Edward Tufte

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• Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Energy
  • Renewable Energy

• We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Work
  • Live
  • Together

• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
  • Kind
  • Writer
  • Lives

• I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Before

• You all had something to do with keeping me employed.

  

  Karl Rove
  • You
  • Me
  • Keeping

• Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Favorite
  • Got
  • Collection

• I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Mistakes
  • Ship

• The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • School
  • Transformation

• Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Money
  • Control
  • Communication

• Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.

  

  Vanity
  • Men
  • High
  • Balance

• America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • America
  • Enemy

• The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Light
  • Democracy

• If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

  

  Chet Atkins

• Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.

  

  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Destiny

• I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.

  

  Edward Lampert

• I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

  

  Jeffrey Pierce
  • Bad
  • Career

• Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Imagine

• Working with my hands keeps me sane.

  

  Seamus Dever
  • Hands
  • Sane

• As an author on a corporate press, you have a lot less control over the finished product. I figure if I spend a couple years writing something, I want to be able to decide what the cover looks like and how it's going to be presented.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Writing
  • Control
  • Couple

• Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. We had some of the most sophisticated sound-creating systems, and were instrumental in MIDI.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Company

• 'High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins.' Or, 'Arnold is pregnant.'

  

  Martin Cruz Smith
  • Book
  • High
  • Single

• A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.

  

  Edward Tufte