Dana Tomlin

Charles Dana Tomlin is an author, professor, and originator of Map Algebra, a vocabulary and conceptual framework for classifying ways to combine map data to produce new maps. Tomlin's teaching and research focus on the development and application of geographic information systems (GIS).

Quotes

 * Yes raster is faster, but raster is vaster, and vector just seems more correcter.
 * From Tomlin's 1990 book GIS and Cartographic Modeling