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GIS Quotes

GIS Quote – Peter

“I’ve always been fascinated by maps and cartography.  A map tells you where you’ve been, where you are, and where you’re going — in a sense it’s three tenses in one.”

Peter Greenaway
Welsh film director in an interview for Film Comment, May/June 1990

GIS Quote – Gilbert

“A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.”

Gilbert H. Grosvenor
Editor of National Geographic (1903- 1954)

GIS Quote – Jack Dangermond

“Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making”

Jack Dangermond
President of esri

GIS Quote – Arnold Schwarzenegger

“GIS is a form of digital mapping technology. Kind of like Google Earth, but better.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Government Technology Conference’s 2008
Conference on California’s Future

GIS Quote – Roger Tomlinson

“The early days of GIS were very lonely. No-one knew what it meant.”

Roger Tomlinson
Father of GIS

GIS Quote – Jack Dangermond

“The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it.”

Jack Dangermond
President of esri

GIS Quote – Waldo Tobler

“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.”

Waldo Tobler
The First Law of Geography