"There are few results of man's activities that so closely parallel man's interests and intellectual capabilities as t…"

"The author took the only course in cartography available to him in 1937; it must have been fairly typical of the few …"

"I started with a kind of artistic approach... I visualized the best-looking shapes and sizes. I worked with the varia…"

"Take an orange and draw something on it -- say, a human face. Now carefully remove the peel, trying to keep it in one…"

"Happiest day of my life, was when the Defense Department took down its Mercator... I started learning how to make map…"

"I decided there ought to be another way of balancing out the various distortions without doing it mathematically."

"Our experience in the Cartographic Section of the [OSS Map] Division clearly showed that the creation of a special pu…"

"The development of design principles based on objective visual tests, experience, and logic; the pursuit of research …"

"If we then make the obvious assumption that the content of a map is appropriate to its purpose, there yet remains the…"

"The assumption that effective cartographic technique and its evaluation is based in part on some subjective artistic …"