The Martian Quotes

“Hey,” Watney said over the radio, “I've got an idea.”
“Of course you do,” Lewis said. “What do you got?”
“I could find something sharp in here and poke a hole in the glove of my EVA suit. I could use the escaping air as a thruster and fly my way to you. The source of thrust would be on my arm, so I'd be able to direct it pretty easily.”
“How does he come up with this shit?” Martinez interjected.
“Hmm,” Lewis said. “Could you get 42 meters per second that way?”
“No idea,” Watney said.
“I can't see you having any control if you did that,” Lewis said. “You'd be eyeballing the intercept and using a thrust vector you can barely control.”
“I admit it's fatally dangerous,” Watney said. “But consider this: I'd get to fly around like Iron Man.”
“We'll keep working on ideas,” Lewis said.
“Iron Man, Commander. Iron Man.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“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, The Martian

“How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factor. Why is my daughter in space?”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Mark, some answers to your earlier questions:
No, we will not tell our Botany Team to "Go fuck themselves."
[...]
The data transfer rate just isn't enough for the size of music files, even in compressed formats. So your request for "Anything, oh god, ANYTHING but Disco" is denied. Enjoy your boogie fever.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I have never seen a work of fiction so perfectly capture the out-of-nowhere shock of discovering that you've just bricked something important because you didn't pay enough attention to a loose wire.”
― Randall Munroe

“I'm so close to Schiaparelli I can taste it. I guess it would taste like sand, mostly, but that's not the point.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“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. Once the sun isn't visible, I'm in the dark. Phobos gives me some moonlight, but not enough to work with. Deimos is a little piece of crap that's no good to anyone.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Godspeed, little taters.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Son birkaç gündür, mutlu mesut bir şekilde su yapıyordum. Her şey su gibi gidiyordu. (Çaktınız mı? "Su gibi?")”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Mars and my stupidity keep trying to kill me.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Anyway, to ensure I don’t crash again, I’ll— Seriously…no women in like, years. I don’t ask for much. Believe me, even back on Earth a botanist/mechanical engineer doesn’t exactly have ladies lined up at the door. But still, c’mon.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“Now to enjoy a good, long sleep in an actual cot. With the comforting knowledge that when I wake, my morning piss will go into a toilet.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“There's no backup, and they think I'll die instantly without it. To them, equipment failure is terrifying. To me, it's “Tuesday.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“I finished making water some time ago. I'm no longer in danger of blowing myself up. The potatoes are growing nicely. Nothing has conspired to kill me in weeks. And seventies TV keeps me disturbingly more entertained than it should. Things are stable here on Mars.”
― Andy Weir

“As I mentioned, it's been a long, boring drive. And I'm still on the outward leg. But hey, I'm an astronaut. Long-ass trips are my business.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian