淑刚 范

“graphics should not simplify messages. They should clarify them, highlight trends, uncover patterns, and reveal realities not visible before.”
― Alberto Cairo, Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

“It soon became clear that doing one thing better and better might be more satisfying than staying an amateur at many different things:”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

“Hitler the thinker was wrong that politics and science are the same thing. Hitler the politician was right that conflating them creates a rapturous sense of catastrophic time and thus the potential for radical action. When an apocalypse is on the horizon, waiting for scientific solutions seems senseless, struggle seems natural, an demagogues of blood and soil come to the fore. A sound policy for our world, then, would be one that keeps the fear of planetary catastrophe as far away as possible. This means accepting the autonomy of science from politics, and making the political choice to support the pertinent kinds of science that will allow conventional politics to proceed.”
― Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance