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"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."

"Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure."
Explore more quotes by Edward Tufte

"I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others."

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

"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 minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."

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

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