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„Ľudské bytosti, ktoré sú takmer jedinečné tým, že majú schopnosť učiť sa zo skúseností iných, sú pozoruhodné aj tým, že sa im to zjavne nechce.“

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

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

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

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42 is a nice number that you can take home and introduce to your family. (en)
Adamsova odpoveď na otázku, prečo práve 42 je odpoveď na základnú otázku života, vesmíru a všetkého (na pôde Brownovej univerzity okolo roku 1994).
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„Myslím, že som nešiel tam, kam som chcel, no myslím, že som došiel tam, kde som chcel byť.“

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

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„Fakt super ohromné. Je to také super brutálne úžasné, že by som to najradšej hneď ukradol.“

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

„""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.""“

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Stopárov sprievodca galaxiou

O chlapoch , O vesmíre , O mamičkách

„Koľko ciest musí človek prejsť?“

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O ceste

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

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O problémoch

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

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Varianta: Neverte všetkému, čo je na internete. Až na toto. No, aj vrátane tohto, asi.

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

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O zlu , O ľuďoch , O vesmíre

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

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O chybách , O ľuďoch , O bláznoch

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

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

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

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

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

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“Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything

“In fact the only thing that I don't like about Whisky, is that if I take the merest sip of the stuff, it sends a sharp pain from the back of my left eyeball down to the tip of my right elbow, and I begin to walk in a very special way, bumping into people and snarling at the furniture. I have therefore learned to turn my attention to other tipples. Margaritas, I'm very fond of, but they make me buy very stupid things. When ever I've had a few margaritas I always wake up in the morning with a sense of dread as to what I will find downstairs. The worst was a 6ft long pencil and a 2ft wide India rubber that I had shipped over from New York, as a result of one injudicious binge.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.”

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As quoted in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988) by Neil Gaiman

“ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly bad that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Meaning of Liff

The Meaning of Liff (1983)

“Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt

The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

“AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Meaning of Liff

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

“…he had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his "Zen" method of navigation, which was simply to find any car that looked as if it knew where it was going and follow it. The results were more often surprising than successful, but he felt it was worth it for the sake of the few occasions when it was both.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 4

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

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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.

“"What really is the point of trying to teach anything to anybody?"
This question seemed to provoke a murmur of sympathetic approval from up and down the table.
Richard continued, "What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself."”

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Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

“Part of how we come to take command of our world, to take command of our environment, to make these tools by which we're able to do this, is we ask ourselves questions about it the whole time. So this man starts to ask himself questions. "This world," he says, "so who made it?" Now, of course he thinks that, because he makes things himself. So he's looking for someone who would have made this world. He says, "Well, so who would have made this world? Well, it must be something a little like me. Obviously much much bigger. And necessarily invisible. But he would have made it. Now why did he make it?" Now we always ask ourselves "why?" because we look for intention around us; because we always intend– we do something with intention. We boil an egg in order to eat it. So we look at the rocks, and we look at the trees, and we wonder what intention is here even though it doesn't have intention.”

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Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)

“The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything

“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.”

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Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

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?”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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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.”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt

Zdroj: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)

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

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”

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Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“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.”

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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.

“The Answer to the Great Question… Of Life, the Universe and Everything… Is… Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.”

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“Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.”

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Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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

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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.