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 wit….

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 potentia….

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….

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 a….

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 calculati….

What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it i….

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 ….

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves.

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

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one..

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

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point..

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..

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

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 t….

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 wit….

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 th….

It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' ….

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

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

Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize its the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?.