Quotes About Navigation

I didn't really have a road map ever.

The sea is my business.

People hate searching.

We parcel up time into years and months and days because without compartmentalisation the tundra of time is impossible to navigate.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can't just abuse it.

Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

Phips his Wreck-Voyage.

there is no one right way of handling storms at sea. There is only what works for different boats and their captains in different storms, an improvised alchemy of conditions and intuition.

On the fourth hand, one reason I don't like IDEs quite so much is that they can make it hard to know when you've actually seen everything. Walking around in a graph, it's hard to know you've touched all the parts. Whereas if you've got some linear order, it's guaranteed to take you through everything.

Someone had told me, years ago, that Key West's latitude was the northernmost from which the Southern Cross was visible. I had glimpsed it just once, in 1980, while on a night swordfishing trip in the Gulf Stream. It hung a hand's width above the horizon in the southwest—four stars like the points of a crystal kite. On

Richard would now often stay out in the desert after it had gotten dark. Mike had taught him how to read the stars, and he never got lost.

says he sailed his own boat out to the position given by

Cette chambre est un navire. Un marie à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.

Cette chambre est un navire. Un navire à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.

When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.

The original specifications for Apollo navigation called for the ability to fly a complete mission, including a lunar landing, with no help from Earth - none, not even voice communications.

In England, you pass from A to B, and it goes to B, but in Barcelona, you have to go to D and then to F, and it really works your brain.

When I learned about this, I was told that it was "instinct." ("Instinct" continues to be the explanation of choice whenever animal behavior implies too much intelligence.) Instinct, though, wouldn't go very far in explaining how pigeons use human transportation routes to navigate. Pigeons follow highways and take particular exits, likely following many of the same landmarks as the humans driving below.

Grandfather and I did not utter words pending the drive, which is not abnormal, because we have never uttered multitudinous words. I made efforts not to spleen him, but nonetheless did. For one example, I forgot to examine the map, and we missed our entrance to the superway. "Please do not punch me," I said, "but I made a miniature error with the map." Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

I swam as fortune directed me, and

There is a labyrinth which is a straight line.

In the Hellenistic period, Scylla was identified with the rock of logic, while Charybdis was identified with the abyss of mysticism. One must sail between—as these are all instructions for moving down through the middle, between each pair of opposites.

The signs look better. The Father of Waters [the Mississippi River] again goes unvexed to the sea.