59 Quotes by Mark Mason

Our sense when it hit was that it was bad but could have been worse. For us, the coverage we gave it was a lot. We weren't looking to create angles beyond the obvious ones, like the impact on gas prices. That isn't the WINS way.

It was a good win, but when Pete (Graham) got him to the front, the horse wanted to turn it up a bit.

I don't really like him in the first place, so this doesn't surprise me at all.

I don't like him. I would like to see him out of office.

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

Learning how to weigh evidence and fairly re-establish a boundary can be as much an art as a science.

There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that, while physical coordination of monuments is easier than it's ever been, property boundaries often need to be determined based on evidence and plans that are old, decrepit, and done with different technology and expectations than we have today.

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

I was attracted to the direct connection with history that land surveyors experience in the form of plans, field notes, and from surveying monuments from decades or even centuries in the past.