It used to be if you wanted to do a newspaper comic, you had to appeal to a pretty big chunk of the newspaper’s readership for them to want to keep you around. ‘Dilbert’ would be office humor, but even that is pretty widely experienced. Randall Munroe Read Quote
I’m sad that my childhood came just slightly before the lithium-ion-battery boom, because I would’ve killed for the cheap radio-controlled helicopters they have now. Randall Munroe Read Quote
It’s amazing what’s buried in old, poorly digitized PDFs hosted on some random professor’s website. Randall Munroe Read Quote
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it’s the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world? Randall Munroe Read Quote
I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one. Randall Munroe Read Quote
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. Randall Munroe Read Quote
What people don’t appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn’t manage it, and they’ve had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over. Randall Munroe Read Quote
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. Randall Munroe Read Quote
I think the weirdest question I’ve ever gotten was, ‘If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes?’ Randall Munroe Read Quote
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something… for a very narrow audience and make a living at it. Randall Munroe Read Quote