A visual display of data should be simple enough to fit on the side of a van
Feynman diagram sculptures by Edward Tufte
The Iron Law of Megaproject Management:
"Over budget, over time, under benefits, over and over again."
"Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point."
1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;
2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;
3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law;
The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
― Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008)