Faster-Than-Light Travel/Quotes

Sandurz: Prepare ship for light speed!
Dark Helmet: No, no, no, light speed is too slow.
Sandurz: Light speed, too slow?

Dark Helmet: Yes. We're gonna have to go right to... ludicrous speed!

—Spaceballs

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

—Woody Allen

Сегодня в космос пущена ракета,
Она летит в двенадцать раз быстрее света
И долетит до цели в шесть утра...
Вчера.

(Translated liberally from the Russian): ^[1]

A rocket ship was launched tonight
to unimaginable heights
at thirty times the speed of light

it will arrive at six... last night

—The Strugatsky Brothers

Nobody wants to think about Kirk and Spock bravely going to some alien planet while everyone they've ever known dies of old age!

—Jason Major

Deploy the... uh, I think it's the yellow button. It's usually flashing. It makes the engine go WHOOSH!

—Duck Dodgers, Duck Dodgers

↑ A more literal translation: "Today a rocket was launched into space / It flies a dozen times faster than light / And it will reach its destination at six in the morning... / Yesterday."