Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe
Randall Patrick Munroe is an American cartoonist, author, and the creator of the webcomic xkcd. He and the webcomic have developed a cult following, and after leaving NASA, he became a professional webcomic artist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth17 October 1984
CountryUnited States of America
long people giving
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.
numbers noble shelves
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.
numbers add physics
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.
writing internet audience
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
planets graves universe
The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves
facts world want
I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
fall practice skulls
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.
crazy failing enough
Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
brain fit scales
Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit.
thinking ideas google
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.'
mistake care sometimes
Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares.
ice snow giving
News networks giving a greater voice to viewers because the social web is so popular are like a chef on the Titanic who, seeing the looming iceberg and fleeing customers, figures ice is the future and starts making snow cones.
roles complicated mechanic
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.
hate thinking people
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.