For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., wheres theres crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer

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