Map - Wikiquote Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Community portal Village pump Recent changes Random page Help Contact Wikiquote Wikiquote links People Literary works Proverbs Films TV shows Themes Categories Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Map 10 languages বাংলা Čeština Español Eesti עברית Italiano Polski Slovenčina Српски / srpski Українська Edit links Page Discussion English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Print/export Create a book Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia Wikivoyage Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikiquote, the free quote compendium World map (1689, Amsterdam) A map is a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as objects, regions, and themes. There are no maps to lead us where we are going, to this new world of our own making. As the world looks back to nine decades of war, of strife, of suspicion, let us also look forward—to a new century, and a new millennium, of peace, freedom and prosperity. ~ George H. W. Bush CONTENT: A - F , G - L , M - R , S - Z , See also , External links Quotes [edit] Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author A - F [edit] Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. Muhammad Ali, in Don't Stop Believin': Pop Culture and Religion from Ben-Hur to Zombies, Westminster John Knox Press, 2012, p. 35 The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named. Gregory Bateson (1979) Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: E. P. Dutton. p. 30 Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. Gregory Bateson (1988) Mind and nature: a necessary unity p. 99 There are no maps to lead us where we are going, to this new world of our own making. As the world looks back to nine decades of war, of strife, of suspicion, let us also look forward—to a new century, and a new millennium, of peace, freedom and prosperity. George H. W. Bush made those comments on January1, 1990. The Watchtower magazine; In Search of a New World Order, 7/15 1991. In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary. Harold Bloom, in Paul A. Olson Beyond a Common Joy: An Introduction to Shakespearean Comedy, U of Nebraska Press, 2008, p. 12 “It does not appear to be too difficult,” Alain agreed. “But I remember being cautioned that maps carry their own illusions, often making appear simple a journey which is actually far more difficult in practice.” Jack Campbell, The Hidden Masters of Marandur (2015), Chapter 7 History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. John Henrik Clarke, in Robert K. Johnston, et al., John Henrik Clarke: Historian, Scholar, and Teacher by Eric Kofi Acree, Africana Librarian, John Henrik Clarke Africana Library, Cornell University A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been. Chuck Close, in Andy Ward What I've Learned: Chuck Close, Hearst Communications, 31 December 2001 This seems highly likely, especially as it has been shown that in several systems mutations affecting the same amino acid are extremely near together on the genetic map. Francis Crick, in The Realm of Science, Volume 18, Touchstone Publishing Company, 1972, p. 171 We may think of maps and mapping as an objective process, but that would be an illusion. What gets mapped, and more importantly, what does not, is a product of various social, economic, and political phenomena. Quite apart from border disputes and contentious sovereignty, mapping also reflects political priorities. Creating the survey data that can be used in maps is expensive, and large-scale mapping endeavors are typically the preserve of states, whose ability to deliver that data often depends on resources that compete with other governmental priorities. This is true especially in resource-constrained settings. Chris von Csefalvay, "Spatial dynamics of epidemics: Epidemics in discrete and continuous space", Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease (2023). In generalizing lies the difficulty of scientific map-making, for it no longer allows the cartographer to rely merely on objective facts but requires him to interpret them subjectively. To be sure the selection of the subject matter is controlled by considerations regarding its suitability and value, but the manner in which this material is to be rendered graphically depends on personal and subjective feeling. But the latter must not predominate: the dictates of science will prevent any erratic flight of the imagination and impart to the map a fundamentally objective character in spite of all subjective impulses. It is in this respect that maps are distinguished from fine products of art. Generalized maps and, in fact, all abstract maps should, therefore, be products of art clarified by science. Max Eckert, "On the Nature of Maps and Map Logic," in: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 40, (1908), p. 347; Cited in: McMaster, Robert Brainerd, and K. Stuart Shea. "Generalization in digital cartography." Washington, DC: Association of American Geographers, 1992. We invented a nonexistent Plan, and They not only believed it was real but convinced themselves that They had been part of it for ages, or rather They identified the fragments of their muddled mythology as moments of our Plan, moments joined in a logical, irrefutable web of analogy, semblance, suspicion. But if you invent a plan and others carry it out, it's as if the Plan exists. At that point it does exist. Hereafter, hordes of Diabolicals will swarm through the world in search of the map. We offered a map to people who were trying to overcome a deep private frustration. What frustration? Belbo's first file suggested it to me: There can be no failure if there really is a Plan. Defeated you may be, but never through any fault of your own. To bow to a cosmic will is no shame. You are not a coward; you are a martyr. Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum Yesod, Chapter 118 A map is not the territory. - Alfred Korzybski Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum Tiferet, Chapter 83 You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. Helen Fisher, in Sharing The Good Life, Prezi Inc., 15 November 2013 The three basic mechanisms of averaging, feedback and division of labor give us a first idea of a how a CMM [Collective Mental Map] can be developed in the most efficient way, that is, how a given number of individuals can achieve a maximum of collective problem-solving competence. A collective mental map is developed basically by superposing a number of individual mental maps. There must be sufficient diversity among these individual maps to cover an as large as possible domain, yet sufficient redundancy so that the overlap between maps is large enough to make the resulting graph fully connected, and so that each preference in the map is the superposition of a number of individual preferences that is large enough to cancel out individual fluctuations. The best way to quickly expand and improve the map and fill in gaps is to use a positive feedback that encourages individuals to use high preference paths discovered by others, yet is not so strong that it discourages the exploration of new paths. Francis Heylighen (1999) "Collective Intelligence and its Implementation on the Web: algorithms to develop a collective mental map", In: Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 5(3), p. 253-280. p. 265 G - L [edit] Now, to use the famous metaphor by Alfred Korzybski in his Science and Sanity (1933), this verbal world ought to stand in relation to the extensional world as a map does to the territory it is supposed to represent. If a child grows to adulthood with a verbal world in his head which corresponds fairly closely to the extensional world that he finds around him in his widening experience, he is in relatively small danger of being shocked or hurt by what he finds, because his verbal world has told him what, more or less, to expect. He is prepared for life. If, however, he grows up with a false map in his head [...] he will constantly be running into trouble, wasting his efforts, and acting like a fool. He will not be adjusted to the world as it is: he may, if the lack of adjustment is serious, end up in a mental hospital. (editor's link) S. I. Hayakawa Maps and Territories, p. 31 Heinz performs the magic trick of convincing us that the familiar objects of our existence can be seen to be nothing more than tokens for the behaviors of the organism that apparently create stable forms. These stabilities persist, for that organism, as an observing system. This is not to deny an underlying reality that is the source of objects, but rather to emphasize the role of process, and the role of the organism in the production of a living map, a map that is so sensitive that map and territory are conjoined. Louis H. Kauffman, "EigenForm." Kybernetes 34.1/2 (2005): 129-150. The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map. Alfred Korzybski Science and Sanity (1933) Edition:Institute of General Semantics, 1995, p. 58 Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness. Alfred Korzybski, in Martin Dodge, et al., The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation, John Wiley & Sons, 9 May 2011, p. 60 Man always kills the thing he loves, and so we the pioneers have killed our wilderness. Some say we had to. Be that as it may, I am glad I shall never be young without wild country to be young in. Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? Aldo Leopold "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons" p. 148-149 M - R [edit] The representational nature of maps, however, is often ignored – what we see when looking at a map is not the word, but an abstract representation that we find convenient to use in place of the world. When we build these abstract representations we are not revealing knowledge as much as are creating it. Alan MacEachren (1995/2004) How maps work: representation, visualization, and design. Guilford Press. p. v Understanding how maps work and why maps work (or do not work) as representations in their own right and as prompts to further representations, and what it means for a map to work, are critical issues as we embark on a visual information age. Alan MacEachren (1995/2004) How maps work: representation, visualization, and design. Guilford Press. p. v The fact that map is a fuzzy and radial, rather than a precisely defined, category is important because what a viewer interprets a display to be will influence her expectations about the display and how she interacts with it. Alan MacEachren (2004). How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design, The Guilford Press. p. 161 Id…