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.“

“Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.”

“There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.”

“Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.”

“How do you feel?" he asked him.
"Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.”

“A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."”

“So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed.
The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths.
Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.”

“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”

“What, are you, crazy?' 'It's a possibility I haven't ruled out yet', said Zaphod quietly. 'I know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.”

“We are now cruising at a level of two to the power of twenty-five thousand to one against and falling, and we will be restoring normality just as soon as we are sure what is normal anyway.”

“And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.”

“Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.”

“I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.”

“Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these thoughts for what they were. His instinct was to resist them.”

“How many roads must a man walk down?”

“Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?”

“Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch.”

“Who is this god person anyway?”

“That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.”

“She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior deadness which meant she didn’t care.”

“In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead.”

“Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.”

“What was the self-sacrifice?"
I jettisoned half of a much-loved and I think irreplaceable pair of shoes."
Why was that self-sacrifice?"
Because they were mine!" said Ford, crossly.
I think we have different value systems."
Well mine's better.”

“I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.”

“The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.”

“I teleported home last night with Ron and Sid and Meg
Ron stole Meggy's heart away and I got Sidney's leg.”

“My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.”

“The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.”

“Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.”

“The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.”