Quotes About Navigation

So, could the solution to the mystery of how birds find their way around the globe lead to a revolution in biology? The

searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.

Red everywhere on Waze, as if the city were bleeding.

I was making for 35 Portland Row.

What do you think? Is the middle way a trifle wider?" "I was going to suggest right." "Let's go left, then. We've both got a terrible record at this sort of thing. We're almost certainly both wrong.

Nobody had a sense of direction anymore, including himself. They were too dependent on screens.

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

Cuando se ha perdido la brújula, lo inmediato es navegar a la deriva, no saber a qué atenerse en temas clave de la vida, lo que le conduce a la aceptación y canonización de todo.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

One ship goes East another West, By the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sail and not the gale Which determines the way they go.

There are at least three ways of making associations more tractable. 1. Imposing a traversal direction 2. Adding a qualifier, effectively reducing multiplicity 3. Eliminating nonessential associations

The astrolabe was a mechanical implementation of an object-oriented model of the sky.

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

Also notice that longitude West and latitude South are represented by negative values.

He kept checking the position of the sun in the sky, impatient for it to start going down so that he could be sure they were still traveling in the right direction. Where the sun touched the horizon, that was the sun-drown-place. Brambleclaw pushed away his nagging worry that they would have nothing to guide them if clouds came to hide the sun, and he hoped the good weather would hold.

No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination.

Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea?

Los dos viejos no tenían expedito y vividor más que el corazón, que funcionaba como una máquina recién salida del taller. Era una aguja imantada, que a pesar de su fuerte potencia y exacto movimiento, no podía hacer navegar bien el casco viejo y averiado en que iba embarcada.

Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.

Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]

Lighthouses are more useful than churches.

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

We know that, relative to GPS, radar is not as accurate - we'd be seeing our planes' precise positions in 3-D, not just approximate locations every eight seconds.

I have a horrible sense of direction.