History Quote by Robert L. Mooers Jr

Why are old maps always burnt?

— Chelsea Peretti

“Mapmaking: We get chances to make things different. But to take them we have to be willing to release old crap, not look back…

— Helen S. Rosenau

I have always loved maps.

— Ken Jennings

No one has ever discovered anything new using a map. Just throw it and start finding your own new things.

— Ritu Ghatourey

You can't use an old map to explore a new world.

— Albert Einstein

I suspect losing paper maps but gaining GPS and online maps is a similar step function: maps still exist, but they're vastly more useful,…

— Charles Stross

Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to.

— Max Fisher

Maps are living, breathing organisms that change on a daily basis: You see it in new roads, bridge closures, and demolitions.

— Noam Bardin

I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be…

— Maya Lin

“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”

— Cara Black

“It is not that the historian can avoid emphasis of some facts and not of others. This is as natural to him as to…

— Howard Zinn

A map is the dead body of where you've been. A map is the unborn baby of where you're going. There are no maps.…

— Russell Hoban