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
Zdroj: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.”
Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything
“something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.”
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?”
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”
Varianta: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Zdroj: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Zdroj: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”
Speech http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/index.html at Digital Biota 2 http://www.cyberbiology.org/, Cambridge, UK, (1998)
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Kontext: There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.
“He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.”
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
but it was a start.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 3
“LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl. vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.”
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
“FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.”
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 12
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy text adventure game (1985), published by Infocom.
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 2
“Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.”
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 7