Wait But Why Year One Quotes

“Depending on where The Great Filter occurs, we’re left with three possible realities: We’re rare, we’re first, or we’re fucked.”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader

“They even changed the year—it’s not 2013 in North Korea, it’s Juche 101 (101 years after Kim Il Sung’s birth).”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader

“Almost nothing you’re socially scared of is actually scary.”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader

“imagine that everyone else in the world does that too (just pretend that makes sense), and all the people of the world, naked and holding their wealth in cash, come together and throw their wealth into a big pile together. How much money would be in that pile? $241,000,000,000,000. The combined wealth of all the people of the world is $241 trillion.1”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader

“A Facebook status is annoying if it primarily serves the author and does nothing positive for anyone reading it.”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader

“There’s also a debate over what percentage of those sun-like stars might be orbited by an Earth-like planet (one with similar temperature conditions that could have liquid water and potentially support life similar to that on Earth). Some say it’s as high as 50%, but let’s go with the more conservative 22% that came out of a recent PNAS study. That suggests that there’s a potentially-habitable Earth-like planet orbiting at least 1% of the total stars in the universe—a total of 100 billion billion Earth-like planets.”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader

“North Koreans still talk about the Korean War constantly. The Korean War is not a part of everyday life in South Korea. The war ended 60 years ago, and today, South Korea has other things to think about, like being a relevant nation with the world’s 15th biggest economy.”
― Tim Urban, Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader