Top 22 David Mccandless Quotes
#1. The seeds of evil usually germinated in the footprints of people who knew how everybody else ought to behave and felt the need to tell them so.
Charles Stross
#2. Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.
David McCandless
#3. The game lends itself to fantasies about our abilities.
Peter Alliss
#4. Allan woke up and wondered whether it wouldn't soon be time to go to bed.
Jonas Jonasson
#5. Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.
David McCandless
#7. By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes: a sort of information map. And when you're lost in information, an information map is kind of useful.
David McCandless
#8. Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I sometimes pass the whole day without coming across a single one. It makes one so nervous about the future.
Gyles Brandreth
#10. You know, Miss Bard, there is such a thing as being sharp enough to cut yourself.
V.E Schwab
#11. Sword fighting is just as fun as it looks on the screen.
Ben Barnes
#12. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.
David McCandless
#13. All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk
Tom DeLonge
#14. Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.
David McCandless
#15. My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.
Victoria Moran
#16. Therefore you can never lose hope-hatikva-because if you keep hope alive, it will keep you alive.
Cassandra Clare
#17. The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#18. In an endless jungle of websites with text-based content, a beautiful image with a lot of space and colour can be like walking into a clearing. It's a relief.
David McCandless
#19. Only you can determine your own worth. No one else but you, but they can certainly help when you need it. We are a family not by blood but by bond and family must stand together
James Terzian
#20. I love information. I want to stay current. I don't want to be under-informed. But I'm busy. Sometimes, I need an instant overview of a situation that I can grasp in a second.
David McCandless
#21. Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.
David McCandless
#22. What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
David McCandless
