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Douglas Noël Adams bol anglický spisovateľ sci-fi.

✵ 11. marec 1952 – 11. máj 2001  •  Ďalšie mená Дуглас Адамс
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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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„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).
Potvrdené výroky

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

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Douglas Adams citáty a výroky

„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

„Koľko ciest musí človek prejsť?“

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

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

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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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Douglas Adams: Citáty v angličtine

“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

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Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed.”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“It can be very dangerous to see things from somebody else's point of view without the proper training.”

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Douglas Adams kniha Mostly Harmless

Zdroj: Mostly Harmless

“If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.”

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Douglas Adams kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”

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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. 14
Kontext: What was the Sherlock Holmes principle? 'Once you have discounted the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'
I reject that entirely. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”

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Zdroj: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Life… is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.”

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Douglas Adams kniha So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Zdroj: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.”

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Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything

Zdroj: Life, the Universe and Everything

“Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.”

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“Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Meaning of Liff

Zdroj: The Deeper Meaning of Liff

“We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Salmon of Doubt

Zdroj: The Salmon of Doubt

“Ow! My brains!”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.”

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Douglas Adams kniha The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.”

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Zdroj: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

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Douglas Adams kniha Mostly Harmless

Zdroj: Mostly Harmless

“My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.”

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“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)”

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Zdroj: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”

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“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.”

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As quoted in The Guardian (1995), and in "Biting back at Microsoft" (5 June 2001) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2001/jun/05/guardianletters3

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