The thing you like/are good at is a sacred thing.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

It's boring to have the same guy win. I'm actively rooting against myself.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

If information is power, why are the powerful so ill informed?

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.

Im a politician. What I say is not holy writ.

The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.

Whether it is a simulated experience or a dream, the information that exists is all real... and an illusion at the same time.

There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.