Brian Kernighan

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

Canadian Scientist

Sandra Faber

Like many astronomers who use the great telescopes on Mauna Kea, I have participated personally and joyfully in ceremonies to celebrate the profound cosmic understanding that comes from joining ancient Hawaiian navigator traditions with the techniques of modern astronomy.

American Scientist

Harris Faulkner

I feel really blessed to work in a place that values me for what I bring as a journalist and as a professional storyteller and navigator of the news. But I also know that they appreciate about me, my perspective as a woman, as a black woman.

American Journalist

Jim Jarmusch

Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

American Director

Melvin Van Peebles

As a navigator, I started studying astronomy because sometimes you're not able to use the equipment, so you'd have to do it the old-fashioned way, figuring out what you were seeing in the sky.

American Actor

John O'Keefe

Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other.

Charles Kuralt

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

William Petty

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

English Economist

Edward Gibbon

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

English Historian

Robert Orben

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

American Entertainer

Navigator used in maritime or aviation context refers to a key professional on the vessel or aircraft.

Professional Role

Do not confuse navigator with the pilot; the navigator plots the course, the pilot controls the vehicle.

Not the Pilot

In modern usage, navigator often refers to a GPS device providing directions.

Electronic Guidance

GPS navigators are commonly used by people for everyday transportation needs.

Everyday Use

Navigator can symbolize a person leading through uncharted territories in any field.

Metaphoric Sense

Used metaphorically, it implies creativity and leadership in exploring new possibilities.

Novel Ideas

In computing, navigator commonly refers to software that allows internet browsing.

Tech Specific

Some technological navigators like Netscape Navigator may become outdated, so be aware of current terms.

Obsolete Technology

 out you start asking why they go in there in the first place do they sense an eruption and then get out of there or are they just caught up in and blown up in the air chances are not but really it's an open question Morgan is one of our guides and he's the highest respected navigator in that region and we're watching the volcano

Robot vs. Volcano:...

 and it was really very much fun to work with them. They weren't doing their primary work, which was for the government, while they were helping us with this. In any case, the way it works is that an intelligent navigator basically maps the entire surface of these walls.

Liz Diller: Architecture...

 canoe builders, priests, chanters, and hula dancers. Navigators were keen observers of the natural world. They were abundantly familiar with trade wind-generated ocean swells, which typically flow northeast or southeast. By day, navigators could identify direction

How did Polynesian...

 emeritus there with a special interest in early flight she had a navigator with her of course fred noonan who was really an experienced aerial navigator but there were also problems too that they probably should have paid more attention to

Amelia Earhart Part I:...

 which was equality. I couldn't let this one lie. And it became not just about me wanting to navigate on a boat and having to put my own crew together and my own team, raise my own money, find my own boat, so that I could be navigator.

Stop being a bystander...

 He created a world map proportioned so these curved navigational routes would be straight, passing through every line of longitude at the same angle and therefore allowing navigators to set a constant bearing—

Why every world map is...

 Onboard autonomous navigation means we can support more spacecraft, more sensors to explore the universe, and it also frees up navigators -- people like me -- to work on finding the answers to other questions.

How a miniaturized...

 hunter craftsman and navigator who even became fluent in Inuit their team also included four Inuit guides who helped them in their mission the explorers made several failed attempts before they

Who Was the First Person...

 So now we're ready to go scuba diving with plankton. My head will be the navigator, and Simone will be our tour guide. Yes. So welcome all to the wonderful world of life in a drop of water.

The wonderful world of...

 And I am reminded that throughout the world there are cultures with vast sums of knowledge in them, as potent as the Micronesian navigators, that are going dismissed,