Edward Tufte Quotes

PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.

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

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.

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

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

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