Edward Tufte Quotes

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.

The world is generally multivariate

The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.

It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.