Peter Lerangis Quotes

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

I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn.

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

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

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

I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

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.

I like modern efficiencies and functionality.

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.

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.

Human nature is to need a map. If you’re brave enough to draw one, people will follow.

Our ancestors used to play with snakes, we play with mouse.

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

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

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.

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.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

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

Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.

A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.