The idea of trying to create things that last – forever knowledge – has guided my work for a long time now. – Edward Tufte
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing. – Edward Tufte
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art. – Edward Tufte
To those who visited the old Library of Congress at the Capitol he will always be associated with it — a long, lean figure, in scrupulous frock, erect at a standing desk, and intent upon its littered burden, while the masses of material surged incoherently about him. – Herbert Putnam, of librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1825–1908), 1908, wo