"We chart our cities, so we chart ourselves. To chart the external world is to reveal ourselves - our priorities, our interests, our desires, our fears, our biases"
"We believe we're mapping our knowledge, but in fact we're mapping what we want others to believe. In this way, every map is a reflection of the individual that creates it. By 'reading' a map, by studying it, we share, however temporarily, those beliefs. This explains why we can enjoy, collect, and hang on our walls, maps of places we've never been and never expect to go to - even places that don't exist. Because the map takes us there."
