Tracking Quotes

“I followed your footsteps," he said, in answer to the unspoken question. "Snow makes it easy."
I had been tracked, like a bear.
"Sorry to make you go to all that trouble," I said.
"I didn't have to go that far, really. You're about three streets over. You just kept going in loops."
A really inept bear.”
― Maureen Johnson, Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

“A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.”
― Dennis Miller

“The wolf is made he way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.”
― Ryan Lilly

“I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations.”
― Steven Magee

“Okay, I know she thinks her little bro stinks but that sounds like she's tracking him by his stench.”
― Jazz Feylynn, Colorado State of Mind

“The middle class and upper middle class are highly attached to the institution of school explicitly as a sorting mechanism, as a way of justifying privileges of which middle-class members are already central beneficiaries. These critics suggest that the entire notion of schools as meritocracies actually reifies and reinforces class privilege--making those whom school rewards (those who already have a lot of benefits) feel they deserve the privileges they have.”
― Kirsten Olson, Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture

“At any point, for all perpetuity, any new administration—any future rogue head of the NSA—could just show up to work and, as easily as flicking a switch, instantly track everybody with a phone or a computer, know who they were, where they were, what they were doing with whom, and what they had ever done in the past.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

“If you want to save money while traveling, always delete your browser cookies or use incognito mode before you book airline tickets online. The reason is, ticket prices go up when you visit travel websites multiple times because of collected browsing history data.”
― Olawale Daniel

“thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your social
class was established for the rest of your life.”
― Marge Piercy, Dance the Eagle to Sleep

“In addition to labeling kids who learn differently as problematic, sometimes defective, most schools classify, track, and categorize students from very early ages. As an abundance of research studies confirm, these classifications tend to become self-perpetuating and self-confirming. My interviewees illuminate the ways in which grades, tests, and opportunities to learn are often arbitrary or related to class, race, and gender. In the supposed meritocracy of schooling, these markers and estimations have profound impact, not just structuring how we fit into the learning hierarchy of an individual classroom, but who we are who whom we believe we will become.”
― Kirsten Olson, Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture

“When you pay cash for everything, your credit score becomes irrelevant.”
― Steven Magee

“Leaphorn sat on a slab of sandstone and considered what these tracks told him. It wasn’t much.

He could guess that the killing hadn’t been premeditated — at least not completely. One who plans to carry a body a long distance uphill over rough ground does not wear moccasins if he has any respect for his feet.”
― Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead

“But would the man who hunted him still be here? Leaphorn considered this. The man would have known he had flushed his bird. He needed to be a fairly competent tracker to find George’s kill site. But once George was running, covering his tracks, he would have to be much better than that. He would have to be as good as Joe Leaphorn — and perhaps better than Leaphorn. As far as Leaphorn knew, there were no better trackers than himself. Certainly no Zuni, or white man.”
― Tony Hillerman, Dance Hall of the Dead

“Google tracks their users even though their motto is ‘Don’t be evil.’”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I keep location tracking turned on in my cell phone and computer because my risk assessment regarding my research indicates I am at high risk of abduction.”
― Steven Magee

“The revelation of tech companies tracking our every move prompted the creation of Bronva. We reject the notion that users should be commodified for corporate gain. With Bronva, your data is not for sale, your online activities are not monetized, and your searches remain private.”
― James William Steven Parker

“Bronva Browser extends our privacy advocacy. With pre-installed privacy-focused extensions, it goes beyond a mere browser; it's a statement that online activities should be shielded from intrusive tracking and ads. Privacy should be a default, not an add-on.”
― James William Steven Parker

“In his book Footsteps (1985), Richard Holmes compared the biographer's act to 'a kind of pursuit, a tracking of the physical trail of someone's path through the past'. What Holmes realized in the course of his own pursuits was that the footstepping biographer never actually reached his subject; only encountered at best the second-order suggestions of their earlier presence: glimpses of afterglow, retinal ghosts, psychic gossamer. 'You would never catch them,' cautioned Holmes, 'no, you would never quite catch them...”
― Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

“My brain hid the improvement. Daily life normalizes change before you register it. You feel slightly better, then that becomes the new baseline, and you forget what 'worse' felt like. But my notes held the truth. My brain didn't.”
― Andrew Neves, The Microgreens Method: A 90-Day System for Cellular Health You Can Actually Measure