We live in a nation where the winner of the most powerful office in the land may have been decided by a lousy user interface. So, if typical Americans have trouble choosing the right options on a butterfly ballot -- a sheet of paper with four arrows on the left, four arrows on the right and eight holes in the middle -- how can they be expected to figure out today's computers, Web sites and portable gadgets?
-- Rory O'Connor (Interactive Week)

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Activity back of a very small idea will produce more than inactivity and the planning of genius.
-- James A. Worsham

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The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde

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Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
-- Max Planck (1858-1947)

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If the voter cannot grasp the details of the problems of the day because he has not the time, the interest or the knowledge, he will not have a better public opinion because he is asked to express his opinion more often.
-- Walter Lippmann

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Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
-- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

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Those who lack moral courage will compensate by feigning physical courage.
-- Jack Brown (@drjackbrown)

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The arrogance of ignorance is fatal.
-- Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald)

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Symmetry is immunity to change.
-- Mario Livio (Studio360)

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