Andy Weir
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When they sow that act, they will reap a habit... PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ... GARY F EVANS... This is a regional fair that attracts people from the surrounding counties and from further distance... ED MURPHY In other words, ... people don't have to only come out here on Oct. 29 to get a good look at Mars th... BARBARA WILSON BRUCE PITTMAN Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billi... DICK RUTAN The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billi... DICK RUTAN While NASA has used gravity assists to send spacecraft off on interplanetary missions, no one has ev... RONALD V. SWANSON DEYTH BANGER BRIAN BINNIE BUZZ ALDRIN CARL SAGAN There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing. ANDY WEIR JOHN GLENN This brings us well into Mars' upper atmosphere for the drag pass and will enable the mission to sta... DAN JOHNSTON SARA SHEPARD JIM LOVELL BUZZ ALDRIN DAVID MACKAY CRAIG GROESCHEL BUZZ ALDRIN With the agency's go-ahead, we can proceed with this intriguing mission that will explore two astero... CHARLES ELACHI People are shifting further and further to the higher end of the weight spectrum. LOUIS ARONNE I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth. BOOZOO CHAVIS STEVEN MAGEE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON JAMES LOVELOCK The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible... TEILHARD DE CHARDIN SOURCE UNKNOWN N.T. WRIGHT BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM MEHMET MURAT ILDAN A person who keeps always his profile down-to-earth doesn't have to worry with those who surround or... ANUJ SOMANY Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... PAUL DAVIES My family are very down-to-earth people. We are not showbizzy at all. GEMMA ARTERTON This is a significant breakthrough of China's space technology since the successful spaceflight of m... WANG YONGZHI SARAH DESSEN CRAIG GROESCHEL There was an undeniable force that seemed to emanate from Andy and make good things happen for many,... JEFFREY SOLOMON The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the... CLAUDE NICOLLIER ALAN STERN I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit fro... HELEN SHARMAN People come from great distances to experience what others have right in their own back yard. But we... DARCY FLYNN CARRIE NUGENT HARUKI MURAKAMI Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However ma... TIMOTHY NOAH [The manned launch is] sort of economic advertising, which says if our technology is reliable enough... DEAN CHENG What the (main-belt comet) discovery means, I suspect, is that the snow line was at about 3 AU (Eart... DAVID JEWETT New technologies threaten to create a surveillance society. BARRY STEINHARDT [The atmosphere on Mars is almost livable, Cooper said,] but you would need a little help. ... John'... GORDON COOPER DREW CAREY Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK His goal is to raise as much money as he can, to use the basketball program for further research and... GRANT STOUT It's not as if everyone is shifting away from IT, but there are some other sectors like alternative ... JOSH GROVE If we can send a spaceship into orbit, we can definitely guide a bike across the gym floor with a ch... RICHARD KLEIN JOHN NAISBITT The economy is shifting from consumption to investment growth. The long commodity boom will also pro... CHRIS HART
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I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above. ANDY WEIR Oh,” Lewis said, “well if you won’t let us then— Wait…wait a minute.… I’m looking at m... ANDY WEIR I don’t want to come off as arrogant here, but I’m the best botanist on the planet. ANDY WEIR The screen went black before I was out of the airlock. Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for... ANDY WEIR Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10... ANDY WEIR To them, equipment failure is terrifying. To me, it’s “Tuesday. ANDY WEIR I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience". ANDY WEIR Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific... ANDY WEIR A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. S... ANDY WEIR My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Interne... ANDY WEIR They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially ‘colonised’ it. So technically, I co... ANDY WEIR WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! -> (.Y.). ANDY WEIR [19:29] JOHANSSEN: When we pick you up, I will make wild, passionate love to you. Prepare your body.... ANDY WEIR Tomorrow night, I'll sink to an all new low! Lemme rephrase that... Tomorrow night, I'll be at rock ... ANDY WEIR He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of ... ANDY WEIR A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to c... ANDY WEIR Not enough,” Annie said. “The press is crawling down my throat for this. And up my ass. Both dir... ANDY WEIR The NSA?"ANDY WEIR If someone offered me a free trip to the International Space Station, I would decline. I like Earth.... ANDY WEIR Just so we're clear, Mark Watney is who I want to be. He has all the qualities I like about myse... ANDY WEIR There's nothing I would like more than to watch a manned Mars landing. ANDY WEIR I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my... ANDY WEIR Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject ... ANDY WEIR it required a crazy Ukrainian guy. ... “Svoboda” I said. “Condoms only cost fifty slugs. Why w... ANDY WEIR I don’t want a job. When I grow up I want to be rich. ANDY WEIR Hey, if you want to play life safe, don’t live on the moon. ANDY WEIR When flint strikes steel, it knocks microscopic flecks of metal into the air. The metal burns becaus... ANDY WEIR That’s the thing about crying yourself to sleep. When you wake up, the problems are still there. ANDY WEIR Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, ... ANDY WEIR Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and sh... ANDY WEIR If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else. ANDY WEIR Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble. ANDY WEIR I'm even going to electrolyze my urine. That'll make for a pleasant smell in the trailer.ANDY WEIR You may be wondering what else I do with my free time. I spend a lot of it sitting around on my lazy... ANDY WEIR Designing a station with artificial gravity would undoubtedly be a daunting task. Space agencies wou... ANDY WEIR If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people w... ANDY WEIR Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From Lord of the Rings . It’s the meeting w... ANDY WEIR Hell yeah I'm a botanist! Fear my botany powers! ANDY WEIR Just three words? Nothing about his physical health? His equipment? His supplies?'ANDY WEIR The worst moments in life are heralded by small observations. ANDY WEIR Do you believe in God, Venkat?” Mitch asked.ANDY WEIR I'm not talking about faith in God, I'm talking about faith in Mark Watney ANDY WEIR Hey,” Watney said over the radio, “I've got an idea.”ANDY WEIR The planet’s famous red colour is from iron oxide coating everything. So it’s not just a desert.... ANDY WEIR By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called "Carl Sagan Memor... ANDY WEIR LOG ENTRY: SOL 381 I’ve been thinking about laws on Mars. ANDY WEIR Live Another Sol would be an awesome name for a James Bond movie. ANDY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR I'm a middle child, and I have a younger sister who is stunning - just beautiful and smart. STEPHNIE WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR BOB WEIR JOHNNY WEIR MIKE WEIR BOB WEIR ARABELLA WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR JOHNNY WEIR I'm so excited, ... 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I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
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If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our so... 
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I'm down to earth; people sense that and they appreciate it. 
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I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man. 
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