"But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as……" — Randall Munroe
"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 wax as an adhesive."
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34 Quotes by Randall Munroe
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Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field,…
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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…
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Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
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A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
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The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the…
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The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.
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I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.
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You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing…
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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.
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Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
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News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on…
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The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no…
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