“Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climat...”

“GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to de...”

“I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.”

“GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measureme...”

“GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.”

“Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.”

“In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open windows. We pull down a screen. We stretch a screen. We scroll up and down.”

“Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.”

“I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.”

“Peace does not come from destroying evil, but from building goodness.”

“It is necessary to build a system or a structure which will allow you to form your dream into reality”