Surveying Quotes

Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry was about surveying instruments. And that is, when some field is just getting started and you don't really understand it very well, it's very easy to confuse the essence of what you're doing with the tools that you use.

I wanted to be a topographer when I was young.

The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

My first occupation was to map the country.

What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

If anyone plows up a boundary stone both he and his oxen should be dedicated as a sacrifice to the gods.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each his revenues, by imposing a tax to be levied yearly. But everyone from whose part the river tore anything away, had to go to him to notify what had happened; he then sent overseers who had to measure out how much the land had become smaller, in order that the owner might pay on what was left, in proportion to the entire tax imposed. In this way, it appears to me, geometry originated, which passed thence to Hellas.