Randall Munroe Quotes - Page 2

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• I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

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  Together, Middle, Found

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• 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 everything you've ever read.

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  World, Want, Facts

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• 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 press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.

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  Long, People, Giving

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• Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

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  Men, Games, Networking

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• 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 potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.

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  Cities, Labs, Faces

  Randall Munroe (2014). “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

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  Writing, Internet, Audience

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• Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.

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  Writing, Office, House

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• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

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  Jobs, Old Job, Virginia

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• 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 shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

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  Numbers, Noble, Shelves

  "When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper" by Noam Cohen, www.nytimes.com. April 19, 2009.

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• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

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  Beach, Writing, Twenties

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• The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

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  Graves, Planets, Universe

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• I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.

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  Math, Reality, Thinking

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• The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

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  Authority, Scholarly, Seems

  Randall Munroe (2014). “What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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