Maze Navigation Quotes

A rat in a maze is free to go anywhere, as long as it stays inside the maze.

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation

...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.

Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

I have a theory that when you're lost on the path, go back to the beginning and try the maze again.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.

One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.