Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more.
“She heard him mutter, ‘Can you take away this grief?’ ‘I’m sorry,’ she replied quietly. ‘Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away the grief; that is what they are for’”
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
All reet! Be fleet, be fleet, cool and discreet, honey…
“In five years the penis will be obsolete,” the salesman said.
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.”
“I believe in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.”
“Your logic was impeccable Captain - we are in grave danger.”
“Clear ether!”
“So it goes.” -Slaughterhouse Five
I’ve forgotton most of the story since, but I’ll never forget Steel Beach because of that opening line.
You might be right.
But the version attributed to Twain is a little different:
‘Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news which obeys its own special laws’ Douglas Adams (again).
Attributed but not sourced, I’m afraid. It seems to be a paraphrased and misattributed form of the original.
You know, I never understood that line about violence being the last refuge of the incompetent. Isn’t it more often their first resort?
I suspect I’m missing something here.
“There can be only one.”
“Hasta la vista, baby”
Never Do Yesterday What Should Be Done Tomorrow.
If at Last You Do Succeed, Never Try Again.
A Stitch in Time Saves Nine Billion.
A Paradox May Be Paradoctored.
It Is Earlier When You Think.
Ancestors Are Just People.
Even Jove Nods.
All from "All You Zombies."
A gramme is better than a damn.
—Brave New World.
I like the Schlock Mercenary take on that: If violence wasn’t your last resort, then you didn’t resort to enough of it.
Take your stinking paws off me you damned dirty ape.
Computer, end program.
I want more life, fucker.
To boldly go where no man has gone before.
Revenge is a dish best served cold. It it very cold in space.
Khaaaaan!
Not the most classic, but still good, it’s from two of Arjen Lucassn’s Ayreon albums (*01011001 *and The Final Experiment)
‘The outcome of the final experiment has now been placed in your hands.’