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 ….

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go ….

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….

A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them..

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the pro….

When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into….

Sometimes I mistake this for a universe that cares..

Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re in Sacrament….

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it..

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….

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….

Our brains have just one scale, and we resize our experiences to fit..

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….

The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it..

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..

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 anoth….

If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hat….