Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.
We were just looking at maps.
Direction determines destination.
Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other.
When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it.
Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.
A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps. Maps are pictures of what isn't.
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.
Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.
The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.
Where roads are made I lose my way.In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track.The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons.And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.
Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.
You can easily say, 'I can go 56', but how are you going to do that?
You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.
I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.
I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.
You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? - By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for.
I've never understood why the knowledge training and rigorous testing of London cabbies isn't rolled out all over the U.K.
A map is not a journey.
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course.
What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.
Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.
Why do I ask for directions? Because I hate wasting time.
