This is an excellent book. I bought a used copy this summer, and what has been so striking to me is the quotes and examples he uses; I have read most of them be

This is an excellent book. I bought a used copy this summer, and what has been so striking to me is the quotes and examples he uses; I have read most of them before, in one form or another, travailing the internet. It feels like someone modern collated the examples for the book, but Tufte wrote it in 1974! You also get a glimpse of Tufte before he becomes the information visualization guru.