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
“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Zdroj: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
“The door was the way to… to… The Door was The Way.”
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Kontext: The door was the way to... to... The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to.
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 17
“I don't go to mythical places with strange men.”
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n.
One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.”
Zdroj: The Deeper Meaning of Liff
“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.”
Varianta: You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Zdroj: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Zdroj: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“… and the Universe,… will explode later for your pleasure.”
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.”
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.”
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Varianta: and we’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere … and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Zdroj: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Zdroj: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 23