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“A clumsy, awkward success is still a success.” (Artemis Quotes)
Andy Weir
Artemis
“And if you want to make babies, somebody’s got to get fucked.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“And like all good plans, it required a crazy Ukrainian guy.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“But no idiot-proofing can overcome a determined idiot.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“Five a.m. was a largely theoretical concept to me. I knew it existed, but I rarely observed it.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“How dare you call me lazy? I’d come up with a scathing retort but, meh, I’m just not motivated.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“I don’t want a job. When I grow up I want to be rich.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“I might have been on the run for my life, but I wasn’t willing to go without e-mail.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“If my neighborhood were wine, connoisseurs would describe it as “shitty, with overtones of failure and poor life decisions.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“If you commit a serious crime, Artemis deports you to the victim’s country. Let their nation exact revenge on you for it.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“It’s a simple idiot-proofing scheme that’s very effective. But no idiot-proofing can overcome a determined idiot.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“It’s all part of the life-cycle of an economy. First it’s lawless capitalism until that starts to impede growth. Next comes regulation, law enforcement, and taxes. After that: public benefits and entitlements. Then, finally, overexpenditure and collapse.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“It’s important to vary your profanities. If you use the same one too often it loses strength.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“My cart is a pain in the ass to control, but it’s good at carrying heavy things. So I decided it was male. I named him Trigger.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“On a scale from one to ‘invade Russia in winter,’ how stupid is this plan?”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“People will trust a reliable criminal more readily than a shady businessman.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“That’s the thing about crying yourself to sleep.When you wake up, the problems are still there.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“The city shined in the sunlight like a bunch of metallic boobs. What? I’m not a poet. They look like boobs.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“The moon’s a mean old bitch. She doesn’t care why your suit fails. She just kills you when it does.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“The overstimulated kids were literally bouncing off the walls. Lunar gravity is the worst thing to ever happen to parents.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“There was something weird about being on the moon and fighting for your life with a stick and some fire.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“There’s no more powerful tool for safety than communication.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“Very few people get a chance to quantify how much their father loves them. But I did. The job should have taken forty-five minutes, but Dad spent three and a half hours on it. My father loves me 366 percent more than he loves anything else. Good to know.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
“Water boils at 61 degrees Celsius here, so that’s as hot as tea or coffee can be. Apparently it’s disgustingly cold to people who aren’t used to it.”
Andy Weir
Artemis
