Дуглас Ноэль Адамс цитаты

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„В бесконечной Вселенной все может случиться.“

„Неужели недостаточно, что сад очарователен; неужели нужно шарить по его задворкам в поисках фей?“

„И так Вселенная закончилась.“

„Если жизнь будет существовать во Вселенной такого размера, то единственное, чего она не может себе позволить, - это чувство меры.“

„Все, что мыслит логически, может быть одурачено чем-то другим, которое думает, по крайней мере, так же логично, как и оно.“

„Жизнь, - печально сказал Марвин, - ненавидь или игнорировать это, тебе это не может понравиться.“

„Чтобы продемонстрировать наше тщеславное заблуждение, будто Вселенная создана специально для нас, потому что мы так хорошо приспособлены к жизни в ней, Дуглас начинал изображать лужу, которой ну очень удобно и уютно в её ямке, которая — подумать только!“

„Любое музыкальное произведение можно представить в виде чисел.
От организации целой симфонии, от тона и ритма, составляющих напевы и лады, динамики, влияющей на исполнение, до тембров самих нот, их обертонов, их изменения во времени, — иными словами, все элементы,отличающие звучание флейты-пикколо от грохота ударной установки, — все это можно выразить комбинациями и иерархиями чисел.“

„Летать просто. Надо просто прыгнуть на землю и промахнуться.“

„То, что мы живём на дне глубокой гравитационной ямы, на поверхности окутанной газовой оболочкой планеты, вращающейся на расстоянии в девяносто миллионов миль вокруг огненного ядерного шара, и считаем, что это нормально, вне всяких сомнений — свидетельство колоссального вывиха нашего восприятия реальности.“

„Вначале была создана Вселенная. Многих людей это разгневало и зачастую рассматривалось как весьма опрометчивый шаг.“

„Обожаю крайние сроки. Обожаю свист, с которым они, словно встречный ветер, проносятся мимо.“

„Вам нужно будет знать разницу между пятницей и яичницей. Это довольно простая разница, но важная.“

„Зафод почувствовал, что балансирует на грани безумия, и подумал, не должен ли он просто перепрыгнуть и покончить с этим.“

„Зафод быстро прошел по коридору, чертовски нервничая, но стараясь скрыть это, шагая, будто у этого была своя, особая цель.“

„Это все довольно сложно, но становится понятным, если подумать немного.“

„Вы сделали нас тем, кем не осмелились быть сами. Тем не менее, вы не признаете нас.“

„Будущее мощности компьютера - это чистая простота.“

„Слова, использованные небрежно, как будто они не имели никакого значения, часто позволяли просочиться сквозь хорошо защищенные истины.“

„Подведем итоги резюме: люди - это проблема.“

“Conceited little mega-puppy.”

“Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.”

“When the girl sitting at the next table looked away from a moment, Dirk leaned over and took her coffee. He knew that he was perfectly safe doing this because she would simply not be able to believe that this had happened.”

“There was a terribly ghastly silence.
There was a terribly ghastly noise.
There was a terribly ghastly silence.”

“Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.”

“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

“something almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea”

“He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.”

“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.”

“How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?”

“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”

“For a moment he felt good about this. A moment or two later he felt bad about feeling good about it. Then he felt good about feeling bad about feeling good about it and satisfied, drove on into the night.”

“The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.”

“He sniggered.
He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.”

“In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.”

“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.”

“He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.”

“We demand admission!”

“And that, apart from a flurry of sensational newspaper reports which exposed him as a fraud, then trumpeted him as the real thing so that they could have another round of exposing him as a fraud again and then trumpeting him as the real thing again, until they got bored and found a nice juicy snooker player to harass instead, was that.”

“WFT-II was the only British software company that could be mentioned in the same sentence as such major U. S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus. The sentence would probably run along the lines of "WFT-II, unlike such major U. S. companies as Microsoft or Lotus …"”

“If we think that the world is here for us we will continue to destroy it the way we have been destroying it, because we think we can do no harm.”

“You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.”

“LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl. vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.”

“FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.”

“She held the car grimly to the road as it negotiated the bends with considerable difficulty and the straight sections with only slightly less. The car had landed her in court on one occasion when one of its front wheels had sailed off on a little expedition of its own and nearly caused an accident. The police witness in court had referred to her beloved Citroën as "the alleged car" and the name had subsequently stuck. She was particularly fond of the alleged car for many reasons. If one of its doors, for instance, fell off she could put it back on herself, which is more than you could say for a BMW.”

“Or maybe she decided that an evening with your old tutor would be blisteringly dull and opted for the more exhilarating course of washing her hair instead. Dear me, I know what I would have done. It's only lack of hair that forces me to pursue such a hectic social round these days.”

“You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.”

“It was a couple of days before Kate Schechter became aware of any of these things, or indeed of anything at all in the outside world.
She passed the time quietly in a world of her own in which she was surrounded as far as the eye could see with old cabin trunks full of past memories in which she rummaged with great curiosity, and sometimes bewilderment. Or, at least, about a tenth of the cabin trunks were full of vivid, and often painful or uncomfortable memories of her past life; the other nine-tenths were full of penguins, which surprised her. Insofar as she recognised at all that she was dreaming, she realised that she must be exploring her own subconscious mind. She had heard it said that humans are supposed only to use about a tenth of their brains, and that no one was very clear what the other nine-tenths were for, but she had certainly never heard it suggested that they were used for storing penguins.”

“Thor was the God of Thunder and, frankly, acted like it.”