It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.
From Edward Tufte
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
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.
The point of the essay is to change things.
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.
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.
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
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