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Douglas Noël Adams (11th March 1952–11th May 2001) was an English radio comic dramatist and novelist, most notably of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Hitchhiker's began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime), as well as a television series, a stage show, a comic book series, a computer game, and a feature film that was completed after Adams's death. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Douglas+Adams">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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2. Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

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3. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

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4. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

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5. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

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Quotes

• “When you are a student or whatever, and you can't afford a car, or a plane fare, or even a train fare, all you can do is hope that someone will stop and pick you up. At the moment we can't afford to go to other planets. We don't have the ships to take us there. There may be other people out there (I don't have any opinions about Life Out There, I just don't know) but it's nice to think that one could, even here and now, be whisked away just by hitchhiking.”
• “You are disoriented. Blackness swims toward you like a school of eels who have just seen something that eels like a lot.”
• “Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.”
• “The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second rate technology, led them into it in the first place, and continues to do so today.”
• “I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.”
• “There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.”

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