Edward Tufte Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
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You all had something to do with keeping me employed.
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Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus)
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.
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If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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I've always liked a good joke that everybody can laugh at.
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This democracy is not by the people, of the people, for the people. This democracy is about by the party high command, of the party high command, and for the party high command.
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With homosexual marriage gaining converts among the young, the party of the Moral Majority declines to stand with Chick-fil-A.
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We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.
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A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
