Global Positioning System Quotes

I started accessible GPS research in 1994 and the first version became available on a laptop in 2000.

Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

GPS are everywhere. They are in cars. They were even in the half-tracks that, initially at least, were going to make the ground invasion in Kosovo possible.

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

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

GPS's battery draining behavior is most noticeable during the initial acquisition of the satellite's navigation message: the satellite's state, ephemeris, and almanac.

The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.

GPS not only played a large and delocalizing role in the war in Kosovo but is increasingly playing a role in social life.