Quotes About Maps

Certain English geologists produced confusion by embracing continental drift and then drawing up narratives and maps that showed continents moving all over the earth with respect to a fixed and undriftable England.

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off.

In the winter, she lived like a mole, buried deep in her office, digging among maps and manuscripts.

Python has a host of tools that most would consider functional in nature, which we enumerated in the preceding chapter — closures, generators, lambdas, comprehensions, maps, decorators, function objects, and more.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Within your lifetime will, perhaps, As souvenirs from distant suns Be carried back to earth some maps Of planets and you'll find that one's So hard to color that you've got To use five crayons. Maybe, not.

Am descoperit ca, de fapt, cuvintele si povestile iti pun la dispozitie un soi de harti, moduri de a-ti gasi drumul inapoi catre tine insuti.

Ordnance Survey maps in all their shapes and sizes are the most beautiful manifestation of twentieth-century British functional design. Ever since I can remember, I have spent stolen moments, wasted evenings and secret hours studying the mystery and beauty of the Ordnance Survey maps of these islands. The concrete trig points that had originally been used in their creation became almost as powerful in mystical properties for me as standing stones. ˜ Bill Drummond,

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of p0verty are fought to map change.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

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That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem ? Where to decide it begins.

But brain maps for the fingers, often used in precise ways, are huge.

Barbara County. My grandparents' maps helped us explore away from

The last time I had brought him maps, for I had heard that nothing cures melancholy like looking at maps.

Folk like to pretend they know everything about the world. Rich folk especially. Maps are great for that. [...] You don't have blanks on your map, so the folks who draw them shade in a piece and write, 'The Eld.' You might as well burn a hole right through the map for what good that does.

I think its a terrible invention. Nobody knows how to read a map anymore. You chase down a blue line but you have no idea where you are in the world. Like a rat in a maze. How do I ever know where I am in relation to Pikes Peak, or the South Platte? Or God?