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You idiots! These are not them! You've captured their stunt doubles!
-- Spaceball Officer (Spaceballs)
Headline: Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
A age is called dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
-- James Michener ("Space")
Men are like parking spaces: the good ones are taken and the rest are handicapped.
There is no CyberSpace, just a lot of people pretending.
-- Sam Kass
"This space intentionally has nothing but text explaining why this space has nothing but text explaining that this space would otherwise have been left blank, and would otherwise have been left blank."
"News" is just the stuff they use to fill up all the empty space they couldn't sell for advertising.
Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
-- Dark Helmet (Spaceballs)
"They were just sucked into space"
"Blown, sir"
"Sorry, Data"
"Common mistake, sir"
-- Riker and Data (Star Trek, The Naked Now)
Since before the Earth was formed and before the sun burned hot in space, cosmic forces of inexorable power have been working relentlessly toward this moment in space-time -- you receiving this fortune.
"Drive in no traffic and leave the turn signal on, it doesn't make any difference"
-- John Glenn (on why space would be a good place for seniors to live)
I think I'm losing it: the first time I saw this I thought he wrote: "don't attack orbital space ducks", and that caught my attention momentarily.
-- sweet@dns.city-net.com (about "don't attack orbital space docks")
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Given the pace of technology, I propose we leave math to the machines and go play outside.
(Calvin & Hobbes)
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun
(After watching the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Isaac Asimov : "HAL's breaking First Law! He's breaking First Law!"
Carl Sagan : "So, strike them with lightning, Isaac."
Additional: Our biggest enemy is going space crazy through loneliness. The only thing that helps me maintain my slender grip on reality is the friendship I share with my collection of singing potatoes.
-- Holly (Red Dwarf II, Queeg)
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum."
"Ah," nodded Arthur, "Is he? Is he?"
(Arthur failing in his first lesson of galactic physics in four years)
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great machinery.
-- Horace Mann
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
-- Horace Walpole
"SPOOOOOOON!"
-- The Tick