All Randall Munroe Quotes
- 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… Always Knowing
- 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… Adhesive
- 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… Beijing
- Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously. Crazy
- A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them. Atop
- 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… Amount
- The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians. Authorities
- I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at. Anyone
- 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… Become Great
- 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. All
- Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit. Brain
- 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… Chef
- 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… Culture
- Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’ Causation
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it. Bones
- I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one. Accidentally
- Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So… Actually Took
- 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… Calculating
- 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… Adventure
- You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right. Become Right
- One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can… Another Thing
- What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your… Across
- I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them… Early
- The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it. Audience
- I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor… Almost Insignificant