What is the speed of dark?


I hope life doesn't turn out to be a big joke because I don't get it.
-- Jack Handey

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams

The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin

Some would sooner die than think. In fact, they often do.
-- Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal.
All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
-- Bertrand Russell
Idiot, n.:
A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Consciousness: that annoying time between naps

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
--Albert Einstein

Revolution, n.:
In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

La vie, voyez-vous, ca n'est jamais si bon ni si mauvais qu'on croit
-- Guy de Maupassant

Boling's postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
Perl terrifies me, it looks like an explosion in an ascii factory.
Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe.
I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
-- Frank Zappa

A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I believe everything positively stinks.
-- Lew Col

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry...
-- Henry Petroski

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
-- Herbert Hoover

YEAR, n.
A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
-- Ambrose Bierce