will.i.am Quotes

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

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.

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

I have a good sense of direction.

I have a terrible sense of direction.

If you know your destination, choosing a route - while not trivial - is manageable.

I have a horrible sense of direction.

If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame.

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.

I get lost a lot.

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.

I've always been terrible at land navigation.

I use maps in my phone a great deal because I can't tell left from right. Having easy access to maps has given me a completely different life. When I first moved to London, I couldn't get anywhere and spent so much money on cabs because I couldn't figure it out.

I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go.

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

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

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

We have built many of our systems with maps as the foundation. We are seeing that a lot of intelligent businesses are doing the same.

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

The lake was always my orienting point when my dad was teaching me how to not get lost. The lake is east, so you'll always know that. It's a weird thing where you can kind of feel where you're at in Chicago, and when I was downtown, I was like, 'Oh, it feels more open over here. That must be east.' It felt like a little secret thing.

Without geography you're nowhere.

Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

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