via Ned Batchelder I was reading about the Two Things meme, as in:
For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or just not important.
Anyway, I laughed out loud at one of the entries, so I decided to share.
The two things about cosmology (by Dennis Moore):
- Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen all at once.
- Space exists so that everything doesn’t happen to you.