Quotes About Navigation

The enemy's gate was down.

If you start forgetting you're already lost.

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

Jobs also decided to eliminate the cursor arrow keys on the Macintosh keyboard. The only way to move the cursor was to use the mouse. It was a way of forcing old-fashioned users to adapt to point-and-click navigation, even if they didn't want to. Unlike other product developers, Jobs did not believe the customer was always right; if they wanted to resist using a mouse, they were wrong.

Web directories, which featured human-assembled lists and categories of cool sites, and Web rings, which created through a common navigation bar a circle of related sites that were linked to one another.

desktop. The screen could have many documents and folders on it, and you could use a mouse to point

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

How do we know where we're going? Follow the moon! Remember, the moon is always over Hollywood, and Needles isn't far from Hollywood.

Never make it without the compass. In the trees, I'd lose all sense of perspective. Direction. Maybe life is like that.

I opened the card. It read: SO YOU CAN FIND YOUR WAY BACK TO ME. I opened the box. It was a lensatic compass. You said, "Read the back." I turned it over. It was engraved. MY TRUE NORTH. You hung it around my neck and whispered, "Without you, I'd be lost.

I was in the process of zooming in when the screen on the GPS flickered to black. I tapped it on the side, as

the government establishes an inquiry office as a guide to the city and a complete stranger refuses to use its services, he is to blame if he gets lost.

Muddy waters should never prevent proper navigation of the ship or the spirit.

Feelings are the lights on the dashboard of life!

At no point, anywhere in Seattle, is there a clear and obvious route to an interstate. And, if you find yourself magically right beside an interstate on-ramp, you can safely assume that it's leading the wrong direction. You might say to yourself, "Self, if I've found the on-ramp going this direction, surely the on-ramp going the other direction must be right nearby!" But you'd be wrong. This place was designed by crack addicts, I'm convinced of it.

If you've never been to Atlanta, then let me save you a bit of grief. If someone tells you something's on "Peachtree," you must demand that they get more specific. There are probably a dozen incarnations of Peachtree, going in at least that many directions through every part of town.

Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.

The ice pack as a whole forms a mobile belt on whose polar side the sea is more or less ice free," he argued.

She had sunk at latitude 77°15 N, longitude 155° E, a little more than seven hundred miles south of the North Pole.

It is the average (or, if you like, the consensus) of the local characteristics which enables him to sense the "grain" of the country, to plan his detours to find his way to his goal. First

Through the devices in our pockets, we are reminded of our limitless freedom, limitless opportunities, limitless ways to indulge our interests. And yet, our lives feel more difficult to navigate than ever.