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The know-your-audience philosophy can be a big step down the road to pandering to the audience.


Edward Tufte

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EDWARD GIBBON Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON