Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
- Douglas Adams
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
- Steven Wright
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
- Richard Bach
The speed of light sucks.
- John Carmack
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
- Graham Chapman
That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.
- Terry Pratchett
Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
- David Ferrier
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
- Wilson Greatbatch
Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
- Wilson Greatbatch
If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out.
- Tom Robbins
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
- Charles Kuralt
yeah, i'm a rocket ship on my way to mars
on a collision course
i am a satellite i'm out of control
i am a sex machine ready to reload
like an atom bomb about to
oh oh oh oh oh explode
i'm burnin' through the sky yeah
two hundred degrees
that's why they call me mister fahrenheit
i'm trav'ling at the speed of light
i wanna make a supersonic woman of you
- Freddie Mercury
But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.
- Maureen A Miller
Fascinating... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive "rock and roll" beats take the place of velocity.
- Paul Murray
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
- Howard Nemerov
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
- Barney Oliver
If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.
- Dwight Schultz
i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.
- Jeanette Winterson
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
- Paul Virilio
- Douglas Adams
If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?
- Steven Wright
You will begin to touch heaven, Jonathan, in the moment that you touch perfect speed. And that isn't flying a thousand miles an hour, or a million, or flying at the speed of light. Because any number is a limit, and perfection doesn't have limits. Perfect speed, my son, is being there.
- Richard Bach
The speed of light sucks.
- John Carmack
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
- Graham Chapman
That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.
- Terry Pratchett
Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
- David Ferrier
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
- Wilson Greatbatch
Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
- Wilson Greatbatch
If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out.
- Tom Robbins
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
- Charles Kuralt
yeah, i'm a rocket ship on my way to mars
on a collision course
i am a satellite i'm out of control
i am a sex machine ready to reload
like an atom bomb about to
oh oh oh oh oh explode
i'm burnin' through the sky yeah
two hundred degrees
that's why they call me mister fahrenheit
i'm trav'ling at the speed of light
i wanna make a supersonic woman of you
- Freddie Mercury
But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.
- Maureen A Miller
Fascinating... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive "rock and roll" beats take the place of velocity.
- Paul Murray
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
- Howard Nemerov
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.
- Barney Oliver
If they're traveling at the speed of light, their month is perhaps the equivalent of twenty of our years. So they're just buzzing around having a good old time, continuously looking.
- Dwight Schultz
i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of light power- to break the gravitational pull. How many of us ever get free of our orbit? We tease ourselves with fancy notions of free will and self-help courses that direct our lives. We believe we can be our own miracles, and just a lottery win or Mr.right will make the world new.
- Jeanette Winterson
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
- Paul Virilio
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