Quotes by Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

Fiction

Mountain

People

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.

Adhesive

Lessons

Stories

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.

Noble

Numbers

Shelves

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.

Facts

Want

World

I never trust anyone who’s more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

Excited

Successful

Want

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.

People

Thinking

Tiles

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.

Math

Reality

Thinking

I’m not sure why we romanticize ‘young love,’ or love in general…It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you’re LYING when you say ‘I love you.

Love Is

Love You

Lying

If ‘other people have experiences incorrectly’ is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you’re experiencing your life at just the moment you’ve found something you want to remember.

Hate

People

Thinking

If at first you don’t succeed, that’s one data point.

Data

Firsts

Succeed

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Adhesive

Beach

Brain

Care

Crazy

Culture

Data

Decision

Enough

Excited

Facts

Failing

Fiction

Firsts

Fit

Giving

Graves

Hate

House

Ice

Japan

Lessons

Life

Love Is

Love You

Lying

Math

Mistake

Motivational

Mountain

Noble

Numbers

Office

People

Planets

Reality

Scales

Sea

Shelves

Shows

Smart

Snow

Sometimes

Space

Sri Lanka

Stories

Succeed

Successful

Thinking

Tiles

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Quotes by Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

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.

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.

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.

I never trust anyone who’s more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

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.

I’m not sure why we romanticize ‘young love,’ or love in general…It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you’re LYING when you say ‘I love you.

If ‘other people have experiences incorrectly’ is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you’re experiencing your life at just the moment you’ve found something you want to remember.

If at first you don’t succeed, that’s one data point.

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