Gary Shteyngart Quotes

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.

I've been touring a lot, and I don't always know how to get around. Google Maps on the iPhone is pretty helpful with that.

Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.

A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there.

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.

I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

It's so important to know where you are.

Processionalism is primary - how you get from one place to another, the relationships and effects of spaces as you move about in them. That's worked out awfully well in the State Theater. I'm a 'straight-in' man myself; I'm too nervous, I like to know where I am. I also like to know where I'm going.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

I like to run in a new place to help me find my way around.

I literally can't get anywhere now without the map on my phone. I used to use an A-Z when I first came to London, and now I really struggle because there's no dot to show where I am. And I think that part of my brain doesn't work any more.

If you are in the country, you should notice landmarks - that is, objects which help you to find your way or prevent you getting lost, such as distant hills, church towers, and nearer objects, such as peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

The iPhone is so easy to use and navigate - I'd be lost without it.

The two most important functional aspects to be fulfilled in a transportation facility are ease of wayfinding and easy orientation.

I have an incredible compass. You can put me back in a country I haven't been in 20 years and say, 'Get me from point A to point B,' and I'll take you there.

Ease of navigation is important in both physical and virtual space.

I'm mobile.

I've always been terrible at land navigation.

I live in New York and California, and I get to travel.

When lost, I look for gas stations for counsel.

The only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.

We were just looking at maps.