Randall Munroe Quotes

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• Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they…
• But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of…
• Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re…
• Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
• A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
• The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could…
• The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.
• I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.
• You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you…
• When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.
• Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
• News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the…
• The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into…
• Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So…
• I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or…
• There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And…
• You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

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