For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.

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.

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

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

Every success stories will have an inspiring tale of failures.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

I think big brows are pretty cool.

I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn't boastful, but some of it is. But that's just the music, the art.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak - that gives it an existential emphasis.

Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

I like listening to classic rock. I know that all Cafe Tacvba members have different influences and sometimes they show and other times they don't.

Shouldn't it give us pause that the oldest works of art are as impressive today in their beauty and spontaneity as they were many thousands of years ago?

The Lord hereby would make us the more acknowledge His hand, and to see that our help is always in Him

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.