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Quotes About Coordinates

says he sailed his own boat out to the position given by
~ Philip Kerr
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
~ Junipero Serra
When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.
~ Douglas Adams
Calvin raised his fingers in lazy acknowledgement. "So . . ." he said. "The shit's about to match coordinates with the fan.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.
~ Paul Rand
Gaps don't/just happen./There is a/generative element/inside them,/a welling motion/ as when cold/waters shoulder/up through/warmer oceans./And where gaps/choose to widen,/coordinates warp,/even in places/constant since/the oldest maps.
~ Kay Ryan
Moreno to base. Moreno to base." Someone answered. Moreno gave his coordinates, then said, "Still no sign of the Morris girl. She can't have run far, though. I'll keep looking." The ATV started up again. "Hayley escaped," Corey said. "You heard that?" I said. "Um, yeah. We all did.
~ Kelley Armstrong
The GPS still has return coordinates programmed, although when I crank over the engine, I get the "reprogramming route" message. I hate the tone of these things-it manages to be mechanical yet condescending at the same time. All systems have it. Some frustrated engineer's idea of a joke, I suppose.
~ Jeanne C. Stein
At noon they were almost abeam of Cape Demidov once more
~ Alfred Lansing
Our distance from Paulet I. is now 94 miles
~ Alfred Lansing
Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to the amalgam of reality and fantasy. ("The New Russian Prose")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to an amalgam of reality and fantasy.
~ zamyatin yevgeny
Each word a world, a world bleeding through from some other place, a conduit and an entry point, if you only knew how to use them, the coordinates the biologist now used in her far journeying. Each sentence a merciless healing, a ruthless rebuilding that could not be denied.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
NOI BAI AIRPORT outside Hanoi and Hickam Field outside Honolulu share exactly the same latitude, so the U.S. Air Force Starlifter flew neither north nor south. It
~ Lee Child
Duress, as I shall argue, has temporal, spatial, and affective coordinates. Its impress may be intangible, but it is not a faint scent of the past. It may be an indelible if invisible gash. It may sometimes be a trace but more often an enduring fissure, a durable mark. One task, then, is to train our senses beyond the more easily identifiable forms that some colonial scholarship schools us to recognize and see.
~ Ann Laura Stoler
People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.
~ David Icke
Let's go over a little astrography. Geography is the mother of strategy, they say.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
What's the address?
~ Sarah Vowell
Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
~ Ernest Hemingway
idea of the latitude and longitude of Treasure Isle, which,
~ Arthur M. Winfield
People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.
~ Ken Jennings
La triangulación es el método del cartógrafo. Si conoce la posición y la altura de dos lugares y ve un tercero, puede establecer su correspondiente posición y altura. Los mapas son eso: triángulos invisibles.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
You've probably seen latitude and longitude specfied in both degrees/minutes/seconds, such as (47°38'34'', 122°32'32''), and in decimal values, such as (47.64, -122.54). With the Geolocation API we always use decimal values. If
~ Eric Freeman
Also notice that longitude West and latitude South are represented by negative values.
~ Eric Freeman