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  • To paraphrase Douglas Adams: 10 out of 10 for the courage to go on The Daily Show, but minus several million for the attempt to justify incompetence.

    The Financial News Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • To paraphrase Douglas Adams: "So long, and thanks for all the s#it."

    Randall Amster: Move Bush, Get Out the Way! 2009

  • I know it's not as easy as voting on Big Brother or the X factor, but to paraphrase Douglas Adams - Apathetic bloody people, I've no sympathy at all..

    EU Treaty - again Not a sheep 2007

  • But to paraphrase Douglas Adams, "So long and thanks for all the hits."

    unknown title 2008

  • $1.54 billion is, to paraphrase Douglas Adams, a vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big fine, even for a company with the impressive means of Intel.

    PC PRO 2009

  • To paraphrase Douglas Adams, that’s just perfectly normal paranoia.

    How do you know the story is done? jimhines 2009

  • Douglas Adams would have been proud: Google has just brought Planet Earth one step close to a Babel Fish of our own.

    New Google Feature Translates As You Talk Lila Shapiro 2011

  • Douglas Adams would have been proud: Google has just brought Planet Earth one step close to a Babel Fish of our own.

    New Google Feature Translates As You Talk Lila Shapiro 2011

  • The collection opens with "Lighthead's Guide to the Galaxy," a snappy poem that alludes to the science fiction classic by Douglas Adams and explores ideas about words, writing and sex.

    Five finalists for National Book Critics Circle award in poetry 2011

  • Avogadro dines in this exclusive club with Max Planck and Ludwig Boltzmann and perhaps, to make a foursome, the science-fiction writer Douglas Adams, for his "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," where the number 42 is a supercomputer's mysterious answer for the meaning of it all.

    How Many Friends Can Your Brain Hold? Matt Ridley 2011

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