Andy Weir famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I started the day with some nothinâ€™ tea. Nothinâ€™ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothinâ€™.
-- Andy Weir

#Water #Tea #Hot
Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!
-- Andy Weir

#Home #Brilliant #Entropy
My ***** is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.
-- Andy Weir

#Brain #Alive
Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.
-- Andy Weir

#Cutting #Air #Problem
How come Aquaman can control whales? Theyâ€™re mammals! Makes no sense.
-- Andy Weir

#Whales #Mammals
Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.
-- Andy Weir

#Magic #Tape #Should
Everything went great right up to the explosion.
-- Andy Weir

#Explosions
By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called â€œCarl Sagan Memorial Station.â€ But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.
-- Andy Weir

#Kings #Memorial #Mars
Your soul is more magnificent, beautiful, and gigantic than you can possibly imagine. A human mind can only contain a tiny fraction of what you are. It's like sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.
-- Andy Weir

#Beautiful #Glasses #Water
If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. This is so fundamentally human that it's found in every culture without exception. Yes, there are assholes who just don't care, but they're massively outnumbered by the people who do.
-- Andy Weir

#Blood #Earthquakes #Cities
Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.
-- Andy Weir

#Insane #Noble #Astronaut
My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.
-- Andy Weir

#Brain #Alive
I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.
-- Andy Weir

#Book #Way #Mediocre
Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies would have to re-examine many reliable technologies under the light of the new forces these tools would have to endure. Space flight would have to take several steps back before moving forward again.
-- Andy Weir

#Moving #Technology #Agency
Airlines need staff to fly and maintain their aircraft. They need to pay applicable taxes and gate fees. They need to buy new planes, repair worn-out parts, manage their company pension plan, and everything else a service industry has to do. But by far, the largest chunk of their non-payroll operating budget goes to fuel. That's what costs the most for any given flight.
-- Andy Weir

#Flight #Taxes #Airline
The thing that is really hard about adaptation is that I try to only pick things I love because if it is something where you think, "Oh, that sounds like an interesting idea but I don't love it," then I can't do my job well.
-- Andy Weir

#Jobs #Love Is #Thinking

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