Douglas Adams nejznámější citáty
Douglas Adams: Citáty o životě
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
Zdroj: Z knihy Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii
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.”
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!”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
Varianta: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zdroj: 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.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”
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.”
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.
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.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
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.”
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything
Zdroj: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy