Quotes About Navigation

But Worsley took his chronometer out to the edge of the floe and timed the interval between swells—eighteen seconds

It lay exactly 42 miles away; only 20 miles beyond it lay what had been their destination, Paulet Island.

Worsley identified the tallest of the peaks as Mount Percy on Joinville Island off the very tip of the Palmer Peninsula.

Hurriedly they ran up every sail to its full height and headed for the narrow opening in the reefs.

Then they came about once more onto the starboard tack. This time she just managed to slip through.

Save his own soul's light overhead, None leads him, and none ever led, Across birth's hidden harbour-bar, Past youth where shoreward shallows are, Through age that drives on toward the red Vast void of sunset hailed from far, To the equal waters of the dead; Save his own soul he hath no star, And sinks, except his own soul guide, Helmless in middle turn of tide.

As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station

For men, life is a highway. For women it is a roadmap.

Rule of thumb: when in doubt, find a marine.

As a mountain walker, one of the most frustrating mistakes one can make in bad weather is taking the wrong route down.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Using the HTTP protocol, computer scientists around the world began making the Internet easier to navigate by inventing point-and-click browsers. One browser in particular, called Mosaic, created in 1993 at the University of Illinois, would help popularize the Web, and therefore the Net, as no software tool had yet done.

In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser's web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.

Direct navigation traffic is by far the most highly targeted form of web traffic available.

It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.

What search is for the Web, maps are for mobile.

I'm on Twitter, I'm on HuffPo, just any website - you go down a rabbit hole. You start out on HuffPo, then you get a link to this, you get a link to that. Or an article, or a blog. One thing leads to another.

Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

I learned how to navigate the world, and life's potholes, in Pittsburgh.

When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

If I do a circuit, then after three laps I could tell you where all the potholes were.

We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.