Jack Dangermond Quotes

"Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities."

"GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework."

"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."

"Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations."

"Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy."

"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."

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

"In a nursery, if you don't take care of those plants, your profits get lost real quickly. You have to weed. You have to water. You have to nurture. Also, you have to take care of your employees in such a way that they do the same."

"Someone once told me be interested, not interesting - that really clicked for me."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it."

"It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'"

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

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

"I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping."

"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."

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

"We have been supporting GIS in schools for more than 25 years."

"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."

"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."

"I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape."

"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 don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane."

"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."

"I can put tweets on a map to show who is saying what where, which could be used for marketing or social research."

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

"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."