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
“Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zdroj: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Varianta: A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
Zdroj: Interview in The Daily Nexus (5 April 2000), reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt
“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zdroj: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.”
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“How many roads must a man walk down?”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Who is this god person anyway?”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
“Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.”
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Zdroj: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
Kontext: My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
“The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.”
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe