[Sigia-l] Smackdown: Edward Tufte vs. Don Norman

[Karl Fast]

> > Sentences and paragraphs are too complicated.
> 
> Don't know about 'complicated' but they sure are easier to write
> than bullets.

Bullets are easier to write than sentences and paragraphs?

Fascinating. You see, my experience is rather the opposite. This is
not surprising since we seem to be on opposite sides in this matter.

Considering reaction to the deliberate tone of my last post,
something which would have been impossible with bullets, it seems we
would also be on opposite sides regarding the work of Jonathan
Swift, who, I think it fair to say, made insightful jest of the
world without ever using bullets, or smileys, or other modern
"improvements" to the expression of ideas through text.

Good heavens, my spirited defense of classic, which is to say
touchingly old-fashioned, writing almost makes me sound like I have
a degree in english lit (I don't; physics, actually).


-- 
Karl Fast
http://www.livingskies.com/