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 think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 14
Kontext: What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? 'Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'
I reject that entirely. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.
Zdroj: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.”
Zdroj: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
“He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.”
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”
Zdroj: Mostly Harmless
As quoted in The Guardian (1995), and in "Biting back at Microsoft" (5 June 2001) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jun/05/guardianletters3