“I told NASA what I did. Our (paraphrased) conversation was: Me: “I took it apart, found the problem, and fixed it.” NASA: “Dick.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.”
― The Beatrice Letters
― The Beatrice Letters
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― A Dance with Dragons
― A Dance with Dragons
“It was right where I left it, in a hole four kilometers away. Only an idiot would keep that thing near the Hab. So anyway, I brought it back to the Hab.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
“I started with a large rigid sample container (or “plastic box” to people who don’t work at NASA).”
― The Martian
― The Martian
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