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 you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner…"
"Yeah?"
"Please don't hesitate to get lost.”

“I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.”

“Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.”

“Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.”

“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”

“Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.”

“A beach house isn't just real estate. It's a state of mind.”

“Fifteen years was a long time to be stranded anywhere, particularly somewhere as mind-boggingly dull as Earth.”

“What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
"Six by nine. Forty two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
"I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe”

“Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.”

“Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it.”

“Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.”

“No. No games. He wanted her and didn't care who knew it. He definitely and absolutely wanted her, longed for her, wanted to do more things than there were names for with her.”

“The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.”

“Imagine" he said, "never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.”

“The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.”

“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”

“High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.”

“So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked.
He looked at me as if I were stupid.
'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.”

“He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.”

“A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason.
This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.”

“Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.”

“He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.”

“Zaphod marched quickly down the passageway, nervous as hell, but trying to hide it by striding purposefully.”

“Zaphod Beeblebrox crawled bravely along a tunnel, like the hell of a guy he was. He was very confused, but he continued crawling doggedly anyway because he was that brave.”

“For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.”

“He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.”

“It was one of those pictures that children are supposed to like but don't. Full of endearing little animals doing endearing things, you know?”

“If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.”