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

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

I have always loved maps.

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.

When you make a decision you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fingertips. If they're all in Google somewhere you may not make the right decision on the spur of the moment.

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

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