Quotes About Navigation

captain then called to the signalman, "Signal that ship: We are on a collision course, advise you change

It has everything to do with having a wrong map. If you have the right map of Chicago, then diligence becomes important, and when you encounter frustrating obstacles along the way, then attitude can make a real difference. But the first and most important requirement is the accuracy of the map.

Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken.

we're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realize we're in the wrong jungle.

The point is, you'd still be lost. The fundamental problem has nothing to do with your behavior or your attitude. It has everything to do with having a wrong map.

Hard to get lost on this island, the whole place smaller than back home in Blount County, Tennessee.

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because she might not get there.Or – Yogi Berra.

Clear, well-thought-out navigation is one of the best opportunities a site has to create a good impression.

Another needless source of question marks over people's heads is links and buttons that aren't obviously clickable. As a user, I should never have to devote a millisecond of thought to whether things are clickable—or not.

Making every page or screen self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better.

When we're creating sites, we act as though people are going to pore over each page, reading all of our carefully crafted text, figuring out how we've organized things, and weighing their options before deciding which link to click. What

Back is the most-used button in Web browsers.)

Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away.

Captain Cook was one of the first to utilize the breakthrough invention called the chronometer. Until then, mariners commonly sailed north or south until they reached the latitude on which their port of destination lay. Then they would sail directly east or west. Latitude sailing

Even in the best of times, life aboard a seventeenth-century privateering ship was a challenging and claustrophobic experience. The fact that a community of a hundred or more people could survive on the open seas for months at a time, in a vessel with dimensions not much larger than a tennis court, should go down as one of the great achievements in our long history of creating life-sustaining habitats in fundamentally inhospitable environments.

TERRESTRIAL GLOBE (1492)

MERCATOR MAP PROJECTION (1569)

furbling v. Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you're the only person in line.

No podemos navegar sin un objetivo al que dirigirnos y, mientras estemos en este mundo, tenemos que seguir navegando.

Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.

We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate

las estrellas son la guía que el gaucho tiene en la pampa.

Running… all over the sea trying to get behind the weather.

What direction are we heading in, Jenny?' he asked. 'East,' she replied promptly. 'How do you know that?' 'Because you told me that's the direction we were taking.