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„42 je milé číslo, ktoré môžete zobrať domov a predstaviť svojej rodine.“
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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„Do normálu sa vrátime ihneď ako stanovíme čo je vlastne normálne.“
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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„Fakt super ohromné. Je to také super brutálne úžasné, že by som to najradšej hneď ukradol.“
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Stopárov sprievodca galaxiou
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
„Never ničomu, čo čítaš na nete. Okrem tohto. No, vrátane tohto, predpokladám.“
Varianta: Neverte všetkému, čo je na internete. Až na toto. No, aj vrátane tohto, asi.
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Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt
Zdroj: The Salmon of Doubt
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.”
Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything
Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt
The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
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.”
As quoted in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988) by Neil Gaiman
Douglas Adams kniha The Meaning of Liff
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
“AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.”
Douglas Adams kniha The Meaning of Liff
Appears as the first entry of the book.
The Meaning of Liff (1983)
“Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
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.
Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Parrots, the Universe and Everything (2001)
Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything
Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
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?”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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.”
Douglas Adams kniha Mostly Harmless
Zdroj: Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.”
Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt
Zdroj: The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
“Ford… you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.”
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Reality is frequently inaccurate.”
Douglas Adams kniha The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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.<br>Also quoted by Richard Dawkins in his Eulogy for Douglas Adams (17 September 2001) http://www.edge.org/documents/adams_index.html <br class="br">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.
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Zdroj: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
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.
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy
Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
