Randall Munroe
Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.Collection: Brain
There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.Collection: Adventure
I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.Collection: Numbers
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.Collection: Lying
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.Collection: Math
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.Collection: Roles
Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.Collection: Mistake
When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.Collection: Sex
Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?Collection: Men
Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacramento, Seattle, Canberra, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Phnom Penh, Cairo, Beijing, central Japan, central Sri Lanka, or Portland, space is closer than the sea.Collection: Japan
One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.Collection: Long
The explosion would be just the right size to maximize the amount of paperwork your lab would face. If the explosion were smaller, you could potentially cover it up. If it were larger, there would be no one left in the city to submit paperwork to.Collection: Cities
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.Collection: Writing
The universe is probably littered with one-planet gravesCollection: Graves
The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.Collection: Authority