Edward Tufte

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

What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.

The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.

Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

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.

A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.

If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

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

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.