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….

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..

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 s….

I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you ….

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 ….

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

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

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

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

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves.

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….

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 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.’.

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' ….

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….