Andy Weir
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And to be fair, if she fails, humanity will die.
Right.
So she's not really worried about the morality of anything she does.
She's like, if I have to kill a thousand people to save a billion, I will.
And I'll sleep like a baby that night.
The ultimate utilitarian.
I suppose so.
Not a random word.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
You don't have a single question about the Mexican-American War?
How many deadly sins are there?
What country has Lima in it?
But fun fact, I did interact with Douglas Adams briefly.
I worked at a software company called Nysys that made a word processor that Douglas Adams used and he had a technical support question and I fielded his email.
And I said, by the way, I love your books.
And he said, yeah, thank you for helping me clear it up.
That solved the problem.
And thanks.
I'm glad you like my books.
That was it.