Top 500 Andy Weir Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Il mio buco del culo sta contribuendo alla mia sopravvivenza non meno del mio cervello.”

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

354. “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

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

358. “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

359. “A frumpy Midwestern woman giggled at her window and turned to me. “Isn’t it amazing?! We’re on the moon!”

— Andy Weir

360. “Human suffering is often an abstract concept to kids. But animal suffering is something else entirely.”

— Andy Weir

361. “I’m space paparazzi now. The attitude comes with the job.”

— Andy Weir

362. “I’m such a dumb-ass for not thinking of it! And my dumb-assery almost got me killed!”

— Andy Weir

363. “I suppose I’ll think of something. Or die.”

— Andy Weir

364. “I don’t even know who’ll read this. I guess someone will find it eventually. Maybe a hundred years from now.”

— Andy Weir

365. “Point is, the process worked!”

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

367. “Pity I’m going to tear it apart.”

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

369. “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

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

375. “I have to face facts. I’m done prepping the rover. I don’t “feel” like I’m done.”

— Andy Weir

376. “No, no, no! You can’t just use ‘I’m saving the world’ as an excuse every time you’re a jerk.” She thought it over. “Yeah, okay. You may have a point.”

— Andy Weir

377. “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

378. “Naturally,” Teddy said. “Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble. What’s the idea?”

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

380. “Mars is not Earth. It doesn’t have a thick atmosphere to bend light and carry particles that reflect light around corners. It’s damn near a vacuum here.”

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

382. “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

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

— Andy Weir

384. “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

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

— Andy Weir

386. “If I get back to Earth, I’m buying Bruce Ng a beer. Though I guess I should buy all the JPL guys a beer. Beers for everyone if I get back to Earth.”

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

388. “Thing is,” Chuck continued, “without the dish, a signal would have to be really strong – ” “Like, melting-the-pigeons strong,” Morris supplied. “ – for him to get it,” Chuck finished.”

— Andy Weir

389. “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

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

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

392. “CNHAKRVR2TLK2PTHFDRPRP4LONGMSG.”

— Andy Weir

393. “Jesus Christ, I’d give anything for a five-minute conversation with anyone. Anyone, anywhere. About anything.”

— Andy Weir

394. “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

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

— Andy Weir

396. “They were going back to Mars.”

— Andy Weir

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

— Andy Weir

398. “I’ve gone from “sole-surviving space explorer” to “guy with a wacky new roommate.” It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.”

— Andy Weir

399. “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

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

— Andy Weir