Andy Weir Quotes

People will trust a reliable criminal more readily than a shady businessman.

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.

I'll need to trick out a rover. Basically it'll have to be a mobile Hab. I'll pick Rover 2 as my target. We have a certain bond, after I spent two days in it during the Great Hydrogen Scare of Sol 37.

Mars is a barren wasteland and I am completely alone here. I already knew that, of course. But there’s a difference between knowing it and really experiencing it.

[19:29] JOHANSSEN: When we pick you up, I will make wild, passionate love to you. Prepare your body.
[19:29] JOHANSSEN: I didn’t type that! That was Martinez! I stepped away from the console for like 10 seconds!

I could cut off an arm and eat it, gaining me valuable calories and reducing my overall caloric need.

That’s pretty much a rule in electronics: You never get diodes right on the first try.

So, in the face of overwhelming odds, I'm left with only one option: I’m going to have to science the shit out of this.

How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?

When stupid ideas work, they become genius ideas.

Every pore of my being yells at me to go back to sleep, but I told Rocky I’d be back in two hours and I wouldn’t want him to think humans are untrustworthy. I mean…we’re pretty untrustworthy, but I don’t want him to know that.

"Přicházela noc. "Jaké to asi je?" uvažoval. "Zůstal tam trčet. Myslí si, že je úplně sám a že jsme ho hodili přes palubu. Jak se to může podepsat na lidské psychice?"
Otočil se zpátky k Venkatovi. "Zajímalo by mě, co se mu právě teď honí hlavou."

DENÍKOVÝ ZÁZNAM: SOL 61

Jak může Aquaman ovládat velryby? Jsou to přece savci! Nedává to smysl."

I started the day with some nothin’ tea. Nothin’ tea is easy to make. First, get some hot water, then add nothin’.

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.

Math is not thinking. Math is procedure. Memory is not thinking. Memory is storage. Thinking is thinking. Problem, solution. You and me think same speed. Why, question?