244 Quotes by Randall Munroe

Books are like cameras—the best book is always the one you have with you.

While 140 characters may not seem like a lot, we will never run out of things to say.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

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 space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random soulmate. In our scenario, you wouldn’t know anything about who your soulmate was until you looked into their eyes. Everybody would have only one orientation: towards their soulmate.

This quote is often falsely attributed to Mark Twain.

I would say time is definitely one of my top three favorite dimensions.

I have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.

This entire thing is the quote, not just the part in quote marks." [Quote marks, brackets, and editor's note are all in the original. --Ed.]