Coordinates Quotes

I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles.

We were just looking at maps.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Trying to coordinate everything, it can be really hard to balance.

There are no fixed points in space.

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going.

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.

Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist.