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Quote by Edward Tufte
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. – Edward Tufte

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The idea of trying to create things that last – forever knowledge – has guided my work for a long time now. – Edward Tufte

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Knowledge
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The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing. – Edward Tufte

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Art
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I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound – indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks. – Edward Tufte

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design
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I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I dont think that many designers get to do that. – Stella McCartney

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My grandfather on my mothers side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. – Kenneth G. Wilson

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Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again – conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style. – Jurgen Habermas

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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it – whether it be a factory or a government. – Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966

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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. – Clive James

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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. – Evan Davis

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I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiots body. – Sloane Crosley

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Success is not built on success. Its built on failure. Its built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. – Sumner Redstone

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