Top 180 Randall Munroe Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If a Venus fly trap could eat a person, about how long would it take for the human to be fully de-juiced and absorbed?”

— Randall Munroe

152. “But what kind of person makes tea in a blender?”

— Randall Munroe

153. “There’s a thing about being alone and there’s a thing about being lonely, and they’re two different things.”

— Randall Munroe

154. “A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat.”

— Randall Munroe

155. “Heat flow analysis provides a simple rule of thumb: If an unused charger isn’t warm to the touch, it’s using less than a penny of electricity a day. For a small smartphone charger, if it’s not warm to the touch, it’s using less than a penny a year. This is true of almost any powered device.1.”

— Randall Munroe

156. “There were no earthworms in New England when the European colonists arrived.”

— Randall Munroe

157. “10 to 20 million people who created Facebook profiles who have since died.”

— Randall Munroe

158. “You can work through the physics of interstellar radio attenuation,1 but the problem is captured pretty well by considering the economics of the situation: If your TV signals are getting to another star, you’re wasting money. Powering a transmitter is expensive, and creatures on other stars aren’t buying the products in the TV commercials that pay your power bill. The full picture is more complicated, but the bottom.”

— Randall Munroe

159. “Could you boil tea if you just stirred it hard enough? No. The first problem is power. The amount of power in question, 700 watts, is about a horsepower, so if you want to boil tea in two minutes, you’ll need at least one horse to stir it hard enough.”

— Randall Munroe

160. “Maybe civilization will collapse, we’ll all succumb to disease and famine, and the last of us will be eaten by cats. Maybe we’ll all be killed by nanobots hours after you read this sentence. There’s no way to know.”

— Randall Munroe

161. “Introverts understand; the loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.”

— Randall Munroe

162. “So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, switching to Yoda power probably isn’t worth the trouble – though it would definitely be green.”

— Randall Munroe

163. “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 without always knowing how they’ll turn out. You’re curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. 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 that you are always making up the future as you go.”

— Randall Munroe

164. “I am a guy who draws pictures on the Internet. I like it when things catch fire and explode, which means I do not have your best interests in mind. The.”

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165. “However, the tests still suggest that nuclear weapons probably don’t make great bottle openers.”

— Randall Munroe

166. “Eventually, they give up, and the unexplained meteorological phenomenon is simply called a “dubstep storm,” because – in the words of one researcher – “It had one hell of a drop.”

— Randall Munroe

167. “Mutations pop up all over the place, but our redundant chromosomes help blunt this effect. By avoiding inbreeding, a population reduces the odds that rare and harmful mutations will pop up at the same place on both sides of the chromosome.”

— Randall Munroe

168. “You may actually receive a lower dose of radiation treading water in a spent fuel pool than walking around on the street.”

— Randall Munroe

169. “GPS timing is incredibly precise;.”

— Randall Munroe

170. “Actually, what I’m confused about is how.”

— Randall Munroe

171. “Based on the site’s growth rate, and the age breakdown of its users over time,2 there are probably 10 to 20 million people who created Facebook profiles who have since died.”

— Randall Munroe

172. “By digging up oil, processing it into durable and long-lasting polymers, and spreading it across the Earth’s surface, we’ve left a fingerprint that could outlast everything else we do.”

— Randall Munroe

173. “The Moon would shine as brightly as the midmorning sun, and by the end of the two minutes, the lunar regolith would be heated to a glow.”

— Randall Munroe

174. “Physics doesn’t care if your question is weird. It just gives you the answer, without judging.”

— Randall Munroe

175. “This is a completely ridiculous suggestion, so it should come as no surprise that it was studied by the US government during the Cold War.”

— Randall Munroe

176. “In Thor the main character is at one point spinning his hammer so fast that he creates a strong tornado. Would this be possible in real life?”

— Randall Munroe

177. “Hello! This is a book of bad ideas.”

— Randall Munroe

178. “It might seem confusing that someone navigating toward Earth’s north pole would be attracted to the MRI’s south pole, but that’s because the Earth’s pole names are backward. The “north” end of a magnet is the one that points toward the Earth’s north pole, which means the Earth’s north magnetic pole is technically a south magnetic pole, and vice versa. This is deeply annoying to me, but there’s nothing we can do about it, so we might as well move on.”

— Randall Munroe

179. “To this day I have no idea where I got “3 billion” and “5 billion” from. Clearly, I didn’t really get how numbers worked.”

— Randall Munroe

180. “Removing Japan would also have a big effect on ocean currents.”

— Randall Munroe

181. “I really love that we can ask physics ridiculous questions like, “What kind of gas mileage would my house get on the highway?” and physics has to answer us.”

— Randall Munroe