Famous Quotes

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

Edward Tufte on Design

More quotes about Design

• "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

  Steve Jobs on Design

• "You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

  Walt Disney on Design

• "The artist in me cries out for design."

  Robert Frost on Design

• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Design

• "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

  Erma Bombeck on Design

More quotes by Edward Tufte

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

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

• "If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint."

• "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."

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