There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.

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

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What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

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

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

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Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

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

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It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.

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

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That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

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