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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

“You're a jerk,' repeated the alien, 'a complete asshole.”

Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

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.”

Douglas Adams kniha The Meaning of Liff

Appears as the first entry of the book.
The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt

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.

“Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”

Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

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?”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”

Douglas Adams kniha Mostly Harmless

Zdroj: Mostly Harmless

“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”

Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt

Zdroj: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“Ford… you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams citát: “Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

Douglas Adams kniha The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“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.”

Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt

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.

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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.

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

Douglas Adams Stopařův průvodce po Galaxii

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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