Top 500 Andy Weir Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “I don’t even know who’ll read this. I guess someone will find it eventually. Maybe a hundred years from now.”

— Andy Weir

452. “Point is, the process worked!”

— Andy Weir

453. “Three comm systems, actually. I guess they aren’t taking any chances, what with my habit of being nearby when radios break.”

— Andy Weir

454. “He waves to me with a free arm. He knows one human greeting and by golly he plans to use it.”

— Andy Weir

455. “No. You no can die. You are friend.”

— Andy Weir

456. “It occurs to me: Now that I might live, I have to be more careful about logging embarrassing moments. How do I delete log entries?”

— Andy Weir

457. “Will you stop whining about your problems during my murder?!”

— Andy Weir

458. “I might have been on the run for my life, but I wasn’t willing to go without e-mail.”

— Andy Weir

459. “Ready for depress?′ Dale asked via the radio. ‘Pretty depressed, yeah,’ I said.”

— Andy Weir

460. “You’re stranded on Mars and you can only take one book with you. What is it? A. It’s always hard to pick one “favorite book.” Growing up, I loved early Robert Heinlein books most of all. So if I had to pick one, I’d go with Tunnel in the Sky. I do love a good survival story.”

— Andy Weir

461. “As soon as the rover toppled, I curled into a ball and cowered. That’s the kind of action hero I am.”

— Andy Weir

462. “All of Earth is watching but powerless to help.”

— Andy Weir

463. “It’s all good to go. No problems that I can see.”

— Andy Weir

464. “It wouldn’t be so bad if the MAV blew up. I wouldn’t know what hit me, but if I miss the intercept, I’ll just float around in space until I run out of air. I have a contingency plan for that. I’ll drop the oxygen mixture to zero and breathe pure nitrogen until I suffocate. It wouldn’t feel bad. The lungs don’t have the ability to sense lack of oxygen. I’d just get tired, fall asleep, then die.”

— Andy Weir

465. “But I would have gotten away with it.”

— Andy Weir

466. “I’m a well-honed machine in times of crisis.”

— Andy Weir

467. “God damn it! I yelled to him. Will you stop wining about your problems during my murder!”

— Andy Weir

468. “Now I’m in a rougher neighborhood. The kind of neighborhood where you keep your rover doors locked and never come to a complete stop at intersections.”

— Andy Weir

469. “Kick a rock? That rock hadn’t moved in a million years!”

— Andy Weir

470. “So,” Martinez said, “we’re talking about going directly against NASA’s decision?”

— Andy Weir

471. “Because if he takes off his helmet, he’ll die.”

— Andy Weir

472. “I thought I was far enough from the explosion but no, not even close. Chunks of twisted metal bashed my boulder while smaller bits of wreckage rained from above. “Oh, right,” I said. I’d forgotten to account for the other explosive in there: the hydrogen fuel-cell battery. All that hydrogen had met the oxygen at high temperature and they’d had a brief chat.”

— Andy Weir

473. “I’ve been so busy staying alive I never thought of what this must be like for my parents.”

— Andy Weir

474. “Carefully reaching to the side of my helmet, I got the.”

— Andy Weir

475. “If this were a movie, everyone would have been in the airlock, and there would have been high fives all around. But it didn’t pan out that way.”

— Andy Weir

476. “They didn’t want to put astronauts next to a glowing hot ball of radioactive death!”

— Andy Weir

477. “They were going back to Mars.”

— Andy Weir

478. “They’ll probably say, “Thanks for gathering samples. But leave them behind. And one of your arms, too. Whichever one you like least.”

— Andy Weir

479. “Software engineers are sneaky bastards when it comes to data management.”

— Andy Weir

480. “I unraveled Martinez’s bed and took the string outside, then taped it to the trailer hull along the path I planned to cut. Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”

— Andy Weir

481. “I have a much bigger problem. The farm is dead.”

— Andy Weir

482. “She looked to the ceiling. “Between their financial base and physical enforcers, they’ll own the city. Think Chicago in the 1920s, but a hundred times worse. I’ll be powerless.”

— Andy Weir

483. “Important note: Do not pee in a graywater-reuse shower.”

— Andy Weir

484. “The questions are many: How long can he last? How much food does he have? Can Ares 4 rescue him? How will we talk to him? The answers to these questions are not what we want to hear. “I can’t promise we’ll succeed in rescuing him, but I can promise this: The entire focus of NASA will be to bring Mark Watney home. This will be our overriding and singular obsession until he is either back on Earth or confirmed dead on Mars.”

— Andy Weir

485. “If Bruce can pull a rabbit out of a hat and get done sooner, Maurice can do some inspections.”

— Andy Weir

486. “But now there was nothing. I never realized how utterly silent Mars is.”

— Andy Weir

487. “If I ever return to Earth, I’m going to buy a nice little home in Western Australia. Because Western Australia is on the opposite side of Earth from Idaho.”

— Andy Weir

488. “Watney snorted in their direction. Then he closed his eyes and felt the sun on his face. It was a nice, boring afternoon.”

— Andy Weir

489. “Blissfull unconsiousness became foggy awareness which transitioned into painful reality.”

— Andy Weir

490. “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.”

— Andy Weir

491. “Only an idiot would keep that thing near the Hab. So anyway, I brought it back to the Hab.”

— Andy Weir

492. “Hey, if you want to play life safe, don’t live on the moon.”

— Andy Weir

493. “I wish there were a way to spend more time on the surface. But oh well. 31 sols will have to do.”

— Andy Weir

494. “You guys know about climate change, right? How our CO2 emissions have caused a lot of problems in the environment?” “My dad says that’s not real,” said Tamora. “Well, it is,” I said. “Anyway.”

— Andy Weir

495. “Hell, if we learned anything from “The Phantom Menace” it’s this: Never start a sci-fi story with a description of complex macroeconomics.”

— Andy Weir

496. “It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft.”

— Andy Weir

497. “But I want a pic of his face ASAP.” “Can’t do that.” “Why not?” “Because if he takes off his helmet, he’ll die.”

— Andy Weir

498. “And that’s exactly what had happened. Power traveled from the drill line’s positive lead, through the workbench, through the Mylar, through Pathfinder’s hull, through a bunch of extremely sensitive and irreplaceable electronics, and out the negative lead of Pathfinder’s power line.”

— Andy Weir

499. “When you get down to it, smell is just tasting at range.”

— Andy Weir

500. “Running to the spacecraft, he hugged Landing Strut B.”

— Andy Weir