"A graphic is never an end in itself; it is a moment in the process of decision making."

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Source : Jacques Bertin (1981). “Graphics and Graphic Information Processing”, p.16, Walter de Gruyter

Jacques Bertin

#Decision Quotes #Moments Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I never wanted to give up. I thought I might have to. Especially at the beginning when chimpanzees had never seen a white person before.They gave one look at me and ran away! They were scared, but eventually I got their trust.”
“You know my feelings: Every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be a pair of socks?”

Source : "In praise of... Tony Soprano" by James Gandolfini, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2013.
“The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.”
“One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns that the young think too little and the old too much, and one grows careless about both.”
“You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship”
“The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.”
“Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.”
“A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.”

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