Douglas Adams citáty

„Sme zaseknutí pri technológiách, hoci v skutočnosti chceme len veci, ktoré fungujú.“

„Technológia je slovo, ktoré opisuje niečo, čo ešte nefunguje.“

„42 je milé číslo, ktoré môžete zobrať domov a predstaviť svojej rodine.“

„Myslím, že som nešiel tam, kam som chcel, no myslím, že som došiel tam, kde som chcel byť.“

„Do normálu sa vrátime ihneď ako stanovíme čo je vlastne normálne.“

„""Vieš,"" nadhodil Arthur, ""vo chvíľach, ako je táto, keď som uväznený v prechodovej komore vogónskej lode s chlapom z Betelgeuze a čaká ma smrť zadusením vo vákuu vesmíru, vážne ľutujem, že som nepočúval, čo mi hovorila matka, keď som bol malý.""
""Prečo? Čo ti hovorila?""
""Neviem. Nepočúval som ju.""“

„Koľko ciest musí človek prejsť?“

„Táto okolnosť sa môže bez problémov stať predmetom napätia, pretože nie je absolútne ničím dôležitá.“

„Never ničomu, čo čítaš na nete. Okrem tohto. No, vrátane tohto, predpokladám.“

„Doterajší príbeh:
Na začiatku bol vytvorený Vesmír.
To nahnevalo veľa ľudí a je to všeobecne uznávané za zlý krok.“

„Bežnou chybou, ktorú ľudia robia, keď sa snažia navrhnúť niečo úplne bezchybné, je podceňovanie vynaliezavosti úplných bláznov.“

„Zriedka skončím tam, kam som mal v úmysle ísť, ale často skončím niekde, kam som potreboval.“

„Milujem deadliny. Páči sa mi ten úžasný zvuk, ktorý vydávajú, keď nám ujdú.“

„Nemôžeme vyhrať proti posadnutosti. Tá sa stará,my nie. Vyhráva.“

„Na chvíľu sa nič nedialo. Potom, po sekunde alebo tak, sa ďalej nič nedialo.“

„Máme normálnosť. Opakujem, máme normálnosť. Takže všetko, čo ani takto nedokážete zvládnuť, je preto váš vlastný problém.“

“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

“Don't Panic.”

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

“Sherlock Holmes observed that once you have eliminated the impossible then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.”

“Gordon Way's astonishment at being suddenly shot dead was nothing compared to his astonishment at what happened next.”

“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

“If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.”

“There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.”

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”

“The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.”

“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.”

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.”

“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”

“One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.”

“If I ever meet myself,' said Zaphod, 'I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”

“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.”

“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”

“Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.”

“He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.”

“This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.”

“I have always been absurdly, ridiculously tall. To give you an idea- when we went on school trips to Interesting and Improving Places, the form-master wouldn't say "Meet under the clock tower," or "Meet under the War Memorial," but "Meet under Adams.”