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Randall Munroe Biography

Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, engineer, scientific theorist, and the creator of the webcomic xkcd. He and the webcomic have developed a large fanbase, and shortly after graduating from college, he became a professional webcomic artist.

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Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there. ’

Correlation, Doe, Eyebrows, Imply, Look, Science

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.

Eyeballs, Hard, Noble, Numbers, Shelf, Shelves

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something. . . for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

Audience, Internet, Make, Narrow, Writing

Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.

Mistake, Care, Sometimes, Universe, Cares

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

Math, May, Sticks, Stones, Think, Thinking

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.

Fall, Humans, Manage, People, Practice, Skulls

If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.

Hate, Moment, People, Stranger, Tell, Thinking

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Right, Science, Show, Shows, Use

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.

Eternal, Love Is, Love You, Lying, Perfect, Pure

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.

Answer, Blog, Dishes, House, Office, Writing

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

Never Trust, Successful, Thing, Trust, Want

I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

Drawing, Jobs, Old Job, Projects, Time, Work

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

Crazy, Enough, Failing, Hilariously, Work

I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

Floor, Normal, People, Sync, Thinking

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.

Complicated, Gender, Mechanic, Roles, Spent

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

Authority, Canadians, Death, Freezing, Scholarly

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. 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.

Bored, Interesting, Life, Motivational, Smart, Turns

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Adhesive, Humans, Icarus, Lessons, Stories, Wax

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.

Culture, Decision, Discovered, Littered, Ones, Space

Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd. '

Thinking, Ideas, Google, Seriously, Implemented, Comic

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