Edward Tufte Quotes

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

But I think it's important that things endure.

The goal was to have matches that would stand the test of time.

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Do something that will last and be beautiful. It doesn't have to be a bridge-or a symphony or book or a business. It could be the look in the eye of a child you raise or a simple garden you tend. Do something that will last and be beautiful.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.

On great fields something stays.

If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

A book is the only immortality.

Words are the only things that last forever.

Let it endure forever

I am the father of the Centuries, the mysterious repository of fame; and the unknown Eternity was my mother; Infinity marks the borders of my realm; no sepulcher will ever hold me, for I am mightier than Death; my vision scans the past and the future, and through my hands the presence flows.

We're just not going anywhere. Our songs are here to stay.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.

Build something with enduring value.

a man who builds a house never really dies.

Popularity ends on yearbook day-Respect stays forever.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

Never is an awfully long time.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

Words are the only things that last for ever.