Edward Tufte Quotes
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.Edward Tufte
Quotes to Explore
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
Malala Yousafzai -
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh -
I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
Nate Silver -
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
Lana Parrilla -
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
Nathan Myhrvold -
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
Candace Bushnell -
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
Randy Wayne White -
You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
Jacki Weaver -
I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
Usain Bolt -
You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
Adam Carolla
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I will meet my countrymen. I understand only one language: that they are my countrymen, they are my brothers. You may see with whatever colour you want; Modi will not go into that colour.
Narendra Modi -
All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
Rajneesh -
'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
Barry Jenkins -
Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
Ferdinand Lassalle -
Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln
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My first job out of CalArts was performing monologues at the Women of Faith conferences across the country.
Deborah Joy Winans -
Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.
Albert Einstein -
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
Carl Benjamin Boyer -
I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.
Christine Lavin -
That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it possible that such a monster would be the choice of a majority of the people for President.
John Sergeant Wise -
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
Edward Tufte