"I think the comic that's gotten me the……" — Randall Munroe
"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 the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations."
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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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But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a…
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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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More Calculating Quotes
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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year…
— Annie Besant
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I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.
— Aneurin Bevan
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling…
— Sun Tzu
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Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
— Frank Moore Colby
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People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction…
— Wayne Gretzky
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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger,…
— Rajneesh
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Just understand, don`t choose - don`t choose even choicelessness. Simply understand the whole situation: that whatsoever you choose, whatsoever you…
— Rajneesh
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The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself…
— Karel Appel
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On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating…
— Unknown Author
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The reason for your poor projections is often right in front of you. Whether you are using statistical analysis or…
— Des MacHale
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