Quotes About Navigation

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Before becoming a college president, I helped over a dozen organizations find strategies to get through some very ugly crises.

Without ships, we cannot live.

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

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

If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck

How could one ever steer a ship, unless one kept ones eyes fixed on the course ahead? If you suspect there are rockd you must avoid them, but it would be a waste of time wondering how you cane to be where you are. - William Price

Cut off from the Mediterranean by the desert which he had no means of crossing, and bounded elsewhere by oceans which he had no skill in navigating, the black man vegetated in savage obscurity, his habitat being well named the "Dark Continent." Until

The blind man navigates by stars behind the daylight.

Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.

Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

According to Ferguson, grey things are invisible. Apparantly its just total luck that planes manage to find aircraft carriers in the middle of the ocean.

My wife, the star I steer by.

Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

God has made man a cosmopolite. He created seas for ships to glide on, the wind to push them, and the stars to guide them even in darkest night.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

Like a horseman who reins in a wild stallion that has borne him, will he, nill he, across several counties; or a ship's captain who, after scudding before a gale through a bad night, hoists sail, and gets underway once more, navigating through unfamiliar seas- thus Dr. Daniel Waterhouse, anno domini 1685, watching King Charles II die at Whitehall Palace.

The answer was that it was about twenty degrees west of their projected apogee, encircling a large new habitat called Akureyri, and heading generally in the direction of the Cape Verde boneyard that separated the Greenwich segment from the Rio segment. Which meant that it would soon be in the predominantly Ivyn part of the ring.

Find it on the map, you can always get to it. Try to follow someone's half-assed directions, and once you lose the trail, you're sunk.

Its title was "Virtual-Space Cartography from Manifold-Based Traffic Analysis.

changing her course several times. And when she spotted the flag raised over Master Chucai's tent, she quickly

Plane-change maneuvers are expensive.