Quotes About Navigation

The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.

With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.

The problem with airports is that we go there when we need to catch a plane - and because it's so difficult to find the way to the gate, we tend not to look around at our surroundings.

fired twice into a thick tree—three shots were the signal that you were lost, two was a standard response from a search team, and one shot could be mistaken for a hunter. You never sent a bullet into the air with the possible outcome of it returning to earth to find a living person

they hardly ever ventured very far from the sea.

It was the sea, and their evident mastery of shipbuilding and navigation

He had eaten Kate's map so

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way.

Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.

I recited and followed this song-of-the-places-in-between as a map.

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)

I am not afraid of storms, for I am leaning how to sail my ship.

Não se navegam corações como os outros mares deste mundo.

Captain, the weather radar has helped us a lot.

Living a life without setting goals is like sailing a ship without a planned course. You are likely to end up somewhere you didn't intend to go!

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

The unknown is my compass

He was one of those many people without a natural sense of left and right, and he made a little red spot on his left thumb, which he called 'the knowing spot

At the Shoals, men have always fished for haddock and for hake, for porgies and for shad. In 1614, Captain John Smith first mapped the islands and called them Smythe's Isles, and he wrote that they were a heape together.

But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)