I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things work and why. Randall Munroe Read Quote
People often say, ‘I like your comics, even though I don’t know enough math to get all of them,’ as if it’s some kind of club where they don’t belong. But there’s no club. There’s just lots of people who are excited about thinking, learning, joking, and sometimes overanalyzing things. Randall Munroe Read Quote
I have no artistic training – as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! – and there are a few things I have a really hard time drawing. I think the one that comes up the most is airplanes. Big airliners have such a weird wing shape, and I always have to redraw them 20 times before they’re even recognizable. Randall Munroe Read Quote
I don’t feel bad about the fact that I notice if a lot of people laugh at a comic, and think, ‘That worked; I’ll do things like that more.’ Randall Munroe Read Quote
An artist shouldn’t be judged by how many people like his art but by how pure and good it is – but I think that when you’re telling jokes, which is more what I’m doing, if people aren’t laughing, you’re telling bad jokes. Randall Munroe Read Quote
A lot of the time, when I find myself critiquing scientific accuracy in movies, I have to remind myself that it had to get close enough to getting it right to get things wrong. Randall Munroe Read Quote
I have the standard cartoonist setup, which is one of those Cintiq tablets, and a laptop. If I’m mostly writing code, I’m on the laptop, and if I’m mostly drawing, I’m on the Cintiq. Randall Munroe Read Quote
Some of the first infographics I did started off as notes to myself: trying to plot out, for instance, how IP addresses are allocated. After a while, I thought, ‘This is a neat thing I can share with people, and they can follow me along in that process of understanding.’ Randall Munroe Read Quote
People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we’re never going to stop needing those. Randall Munroe Read Quote