The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of distinction between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
-- Sir William Francis Butler
Edward R. Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. "Few teachers are as accomplished as Tufte when it comes to demonstrating why good design matters. Ed Tufte, a Yale professor and the reigning guru of information design, has just published, Visual Explanations, the third book of an acclaimed trilogy.