Andy Weir Quotes

They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonised’ it. So technically, I colonised Mars.
In your face, Neil Armstrong!

I admit it’s fatally dangerous,” Watney said. “But consider this: I’d get to fly around like Iron Man.” “We’ll keep working on ideas,” Lewis said. “Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.

I started with a large rigid sample container (or “plastic box” to people who don’t work at NASA).

The worst moments in life are heralded by small observations.

Think they’re going to forget that?”
“You asked my opinion. Don’t like it? Go fuck yourself.”
“You’re such a delicate flower, Annie. How’d you end up NASA’s director of media relations?”
“Beats the fuck out of me,” Annie said.

Life is amazingly tenacious. They don’t want to die any more than I do.

We’re as smart as evolution made us. So we’re the minimum intelligence needed to ensure we can dominate our planets.

Sometimes, the stuff we all hate ends up being the only way to do things.

Besides, if I had a nickel for every time I wanted to smack a kid’s parents for not teaching them even the most basic things…well…I’d have enough nickels to put in a sock and smack those parents with it.

One thing I have in abundance here are bags. They're not much different than kitchen trash bags, though I'm sure they cost $50,000 because of NASA.

Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

This allowed me to do what writers treasure more than anything else: catch the reader off-guard. There’s nothing better than knowing you’re going to outwit with the reader. And the type of people who read sci-fi are very difficult to outwit.

Ayyyyyy!” Annie mocked. “Why would he do that?” “Have you met Mark Watney?

Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob.

The overstimulated kids were literally bouncing off the walls. Lunar gravity is the worst thing to ever happen to parents.