Andy Weir Quotes

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• I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.
• Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!
• My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.
• Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.
• How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.
• Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.
• Everything went great right up to the explosion.
• By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.” But with all due respect to Carl, I can…
• Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you…
• I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15.
• I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space…
• My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches…
• I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.
• My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed…
• Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society will have to…
• The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.
• Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of…
• Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the…

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