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.“

“If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?”

“… they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.”

“In an infinite Universe anything can happen.”

“The waiter approached.
'Would you like to see the menu?' he said. 'Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?'
'Huh?' said Ford.
'Huh?' said Arthur.
'Huh?' said Trillian.
'That’s cool,' said Zaphod. 'We'll meet the meat.”

“Alone of all the races on earth, they seem to be free from the 'Grass is Greener on the other side of the fence' syndrome, and roundly proclaim that Australia is, in fact, the other side of that fence.”

“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”

“Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.”

“Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.”

“He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight ratios and a fair bit about berries.”

“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

“We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”

“It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to need to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane.”

“Beppu (n.)

The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.”

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”

“The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists…”

“If they don’t keep exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working.”

“I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course--the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.”

“I think we have different value systems." —Arthur
"Well mine's better." —Ford”

“The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.”

“Alltami (n.)

The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.”

“I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style”

“Unfortunately this Electric Monk had developed a fault, and had started to believe all kinds of things, more or less at random. It was even beginning to believe things they'd have difficulty believing in Salt Lake City.”

“The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.”

“You just come along with me and have a good time. The Galaxy's a fun place. You'll need to have this fish in your ear.”

“Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.”

“Aberystwyth (n.)

A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.”

“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”

“Would you like to see the menu?" he said, "or would you like meet the Dish of the Day?"

…

“Good evening,” it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, “I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?”

“The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.”