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Randall Munroe
Randall Munroe
American Cartoonist
Born: Oct 17, 1984
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Related authors: Bil Keane Bill Watterson Caroll Spinney Charles M. Schulz Gary Larson Matt Groening Scott Adams Walt Disney
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 language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting. Randall Munroe
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too. Randall Munroe
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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 calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations. Randall Munroe
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it. Randall Munroe
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It's amazing what's buried in old, poorly digitized PDFs hosted on some random professor's website. Randall Munroe
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It used to be if you wanted to do a newspaper comic, you had to appeal to a pretty big chunk of the newspaper's readership for them to want to keep you around. 'Dilbert' would be office humor, but even that is pretty widely experienced. Randall Munroe
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People in my world can be disdainful of political and social problems and solutions. But we're never going to stop needing those. Randall Munroe
People World Political Problems Those Solutions Never Going Stop Social Social Problems Needing
A lot of people will refer to comics by number to me, and I'll realize they're expecting me to remember all the comics by number. And I can't even remember what I ate this morning, let alone which comic was #473! Randall Munroe
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The nice thing about being on the Internet is that you're not as recognisable as someone that's been on TV. Randall Munroe
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I have always had trouble paying attention. When I was supposed to be at work, I'd be doodling. But then when I was home, trying to draw, I would be working on math problems. I never end up doing exactly what I should be doing at at any given time. Randall Munroe
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A lot of times, the idea of a comic will be, 'Wouldn't it be cool if you...' But instead of doing it, I'll draw a comic about it. Randall Munroe
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I don't feel bad about the fact that I notice if a lot of people laugh at a comic, and think, 'That worked; I'll do things like that more.' Randall Munroe
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I think the weirdest question I've ever gotten was, 'If people had wheels and could fly, how would we differentiate them from airplanes?' Randall Munroe
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I have no artistic training - as you might have guessed from all the stick figures! - and there are a few things I have a really hard time drawing. I think the one that comes up the most is airplanes. Big airliners have such a weird wing shape, and I always have to redraw them 20 times before they're even recognizable. Randall Munroe
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People often say, 'I like your comics, even though I don't know enough math to get all of them,' as if it's some kind of club where they don't belong. But there's no club. There's just lots of people who are excited about thinking, learning, joking, and sometimes overanalyzing things. Randall Munroe
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I love learning about the science that governs the universe around us and want to share the delight of discovering how things work and why. Randall Munroe
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When I was in college, I had a fear of cancer. Randall Munroe
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