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 <p><b>"The early days of GIS were very lonely. No-one knew what it meant."</b><br>[ Roger Tomlinson, Father of GIS ]</p>
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 <p><b>“GIS is a form of digital mapping technology.  Kind of like Google Earth, but better.”</b><br>[ Arnold Schwarzenegger, Conference on California's Future 2008 ]</p>
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 <p><b>“I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.”</b><br>[ Robert Louis Stevenson ]</p>
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 <p><b>“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.”</b><br>[ Tobler's First Law of Geography ]</p>
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 <p><b>"It is not down in any map; true places never are."</b><br>[ Herman Melville ]</p>
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 <p><b>"They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.” </b><br>[ Gerlad Durrell ]</p>
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 <p><b>“I get to go to overseas places, like Canada.” </b><br>[ Britney Spears ]</p>
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 <p><b>“I like geography. I like to know where places are.” </b><br>[ Tom Felton ]</p>
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 <p><b>"I have no idea where Italy is on the map, but I do know what shape it is, and its like a boot." </b><br>[ Snooki ]</p>
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