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


Edward Tufte

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EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
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EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON