Douglas Adams citáty

Douglas Noël Adams (11. března 1952 Cambridge – 11. května 2001) byl anglický spisovatel, dramatik humoristických rozhlasových pořadů a hudebník, který proslul knižní sérií Stopařův průvodce Galaxií.

✵ 11. březen 1952 – 11. květen 2001   •   Další jména Дуглас Адамс
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Douglas Adams nejznámější citáty

Douglas Adams: Citáty o životě

„My nemusíme zachraňovat svět. Svět je dost velký na to, aby se o sebe postaral sám. Co nás musí zajímat, je, jestli si nás tu svět, ve kterém žijeme, bude nebo nebude schopen udržet.“

květen 2001
Originál: (en) We don't have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.
Zdroj: Přednáška na University of California. [cit. 2013-09-07]. Dostupné online. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc Čas 1:16:39–1:16:55

Douglas Adams: Citáty o lidech

Douglas Adams citáty a výroky

„Představa, že se Bill Gates zjevil jako rytíř v zářivém brnění, aby vytáhl všechny zákazníky z bryndy technologického chaosu, šikovně přehlíží skutečnost, že to byl právě on, kdo je do ní prodejem druhořadé technologie přivedl, a pokračuje v tom i dnes.“

1995; při příležitosti vydání Windows 95
Originál: (en) The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.
Zdroj: [Mooney, Paul, Biting back at Microsoft, The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/jun/05/guardianletters3, 2013-09-07, 2001-06-05]

Douglas Adams: Citáty anglicky

“I love deadlines. I like the whoosing sound they make as they fly by.”

Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt

Varianta: I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
Zdroj: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Don't Panic.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Varianta: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.”

Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 13
Kontext: My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

Douglas Adams kniha The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Varianta: In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

Douglas Adams kniha Mostly Harmless

Varianta: Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
Zdroj: Mostly Harmless

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”

Douglas Adams kniha The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything

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