Top 44 Jack Dangermond Quotes

Something like 80 per cent of business decisions have a location element. In fact, it’s probably higher than that.

We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.

I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.

During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.

We have a rich and vibrant partner ecosystem with several thousand formal business partners. Some of them are very large companies that we collaborate with in many ways.

My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.

At Harvard, I worked for some time as a researcher in a lab for computer graphics and spatial analysis, which is one of the birthplaces for what we do.

As an organization, Esri is strong, and we’re continuing to grow. We’re dedicated to this. And we’re excited to see what you can accomplish and to watch your work evolve.

GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early ’90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.

We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature… these are not good stories.

You have to decide who you are going to serve – stockholders or your customers.

Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record – our traditional server and desktop technologies – and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.

Because we’re in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we’ve been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.

My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That’s been illustrated at school after school.

ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It’s like a large living library of geographic information.

GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It’s a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.

One of the things that’s making ArcGIS come alive is apps. Apps are opening up the ArcGIS platform, making it available to everybody in your organization as well as to the public.

We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they’re lighting up the world with what they do.

GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

I am not that good a manager for me to be comfortable borrowing someone else‘s money.

We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.

One thing that has made us so successful is that we’ve never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want – not what the stockholders or the VCs want.

I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.

We have millions of users around the globe who do amazing things with our technology every day.

I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

My parents had no money, but they had strong values that I’ve carried throughout my life – things like not going into debt, never borrowing money, never leveraging, paying your bills on time, keeping your agreements, selling customers the right things, treating employees right, and growing things.

Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject – basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. – so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn’t be done in an office.

On the landscape crew, I learned a lot from the other workers. We treated everybody equally, and we worked hard.

Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.

My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.

When I got into college, I found what ultimately became my life’s work. I couldn’t sleep at night, I was so excited about it. So I’m attracted to people who play at that level. They actually want to play in their professional life.

A location-aware tablet will let us use what’s called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share – something we could always do with paper but that’s been a challenge with digital maps in the field.

Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space – relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.

In the area of field apps, Collector for ArcGIS is great, but where do you go? There’s a navigator app. And then what do you do when you get there? There’s a workforce app. So all of these apps work hand-in-hand to support field workers.

AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.

Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It’s been fantastic for us.