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
“You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole.”
Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything
“Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.”
As quoted in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988) by Neil Gaiman
“AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.”
Appears as the first entry of the book.
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 4
“Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Kontext: Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
Zdroj: Mostly Harmless
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
Zdroj: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“Ford… you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams. The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time. New York: Random House, 2002, 135–136.
Also quoted by Richard Dawkins in his Eulogy for Douglas Adams (17 September 2001) http://www.edge.org/documents/adams_index.html
Kontext: If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat. Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision; it is so far beyond anything we have any means of understanding that we just think of it as a different class of object, a different class of matter; 'life', something that had a mysterious essence about it, was God given, and that's the only explanation we had. The bombshell comes in 1859 when Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made by anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well.
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 1
Kontext: It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.