Quotes About Navigation

People are very confused about how to do things on a computer, but generally, if you hover your cursor over things, it will tell you what it is.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard," Nellie said harshly. "I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direction.

The ships all go the wrong way.

Ropes of destiny we cannot see rig this ship

Perhaps the major tenet of Pinpoint is that GPS barely exists—not just because the signal itself is so weak, but also because GPS is a remarkably diffuse concept. At root, GPS is just a radio signal, maintained and perfected by a vast infrastructure that is ultimately linked to the United States Department of Defense.

we are just now beginning to take stock of how GPS can affect the cognitive map. We may be witnessing the mass narrowing of the human cognitive map—as a construct (a decrease in navigational ability), but possibly also on a more literal level, an actual reordering of our neurons.

The United States Air Force never really wanted GPS.

I'd lost the mark on the psychic map that says 'You Are Here'.

He looked back at the house and at all the buildings around it, searching for landmarks that would fix the place in his mental map.

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions..

Freedom of navigation, as ensured by the Navy, is critical to America's ability to project power by moving men and equipment over 70 percent of the earth's surface and to maintaining world trade and commerce.

Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

On the Internet you can swap GPS details and use tools like Google Maps. It's amazing.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

Argonauts—and builds the largest ship ever constructed. He then figures out how to successfully navigate the legendary maze of crushing rocks known as the Symplegades, yoke fire-breathing, bronze-hoofed oxen, trick a mighty army guarding the Fleece into ravaging

Look at Columbus, or Magellan: looking back, historians call you an explorer, but at the time, you're just lost.

John Cole, the keel of my boat. Thomas the oars and the sails.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.