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"I saw you standing all alone in the electrostatic rain I thought at last I'd found a situation you can't explain with GPS you know it's all just a matter of degrees your happiness won't find you underneath that canopy of trees if the green grass is 6 the soybeans are 7 the junebugs are 8 the weeds and thistles are 11 and if the 1s just hold their place the 0s make a smiley face when they come floating down from the heavens" - from Andrew Bird, "Masterfade"

Paraphrasing Matt Jones: "Among his other golden nuggets were: 'I hope someone comes up with the Nintendo Wii for Apple's PlayStation', a friend who'd described switching on GPS as 'switching the sky on' and a quote by Stanford professor Donald Knuth who observed that: 'Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.'"

"GeoCommons delivers visual analytics through maps; enabling non-technical professionals to view multiple datasets, draw conclusions, make decisions and solve problems without traditional GIS overhead."

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