Edward Tufte Quotes

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

Organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible whatever the consequences

I do know people who buy these huge houses but I always think, 'What about all that furniture? You're never even going to sit on it!' I don't want to rattle round in a big house.

Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.

While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

He's not human; he's an empty space disguised as a human.

Leave a space and something will fill it.

Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.

There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe.

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life. I just think that technology and information, it's overwhelming at the moment, but it's really going to make life better.

Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

Aussies are big and empty, just like their country.

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.