A computer which can calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question.

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5 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:17:08.578 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- Yes, but what actually is it?

- Well... Just everything. You know, everything!

- Exactly. You have to know what the question actually is, in order to know what the answer means.

- Well, can you please tell us the question?

- The Ultimate Question?

- Of Life, the Universe and Everything?

- But, can you do it?

- No! But I'll tell you who can.

- I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me. A computer whose merest operational parameters, I am not worthy to calculate. Yet, I will design it for you.

- A computer which can calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question.

- A computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix.

- And you, yourselves, shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten million-year program.

- Yes, I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called, the Earth!

- Oh, what a dull name.

- So, there you have it. Deep Thought designed the Earth. We built it and you lived on it.

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Top rated lines from this movie

And lots of the people were mean and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Drink up. The world's about to end.

Ancient computers, ranged in the long caves, deep in the bowels of the planet, tick away the dark millennia, and the ages hang heavy on their dusty data banks.

What we demand is solid facts. -No, we don't. That is precisely what we don't demand. -We don't demand solid facts. What we demand is a total absence of solid facts.

By law, the quest for ultimate truth is the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. And if the machine actually goes and finds it, we're straight out of a job, aren't we?

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The funniest lines and quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1981 TV Series, with sound clips.

Actors: Simon Jones (Arthur Dent), David Dixon (Ford Prefect), David Learner (Marvin the Paranoid Android), Peter Jones (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book), Sandra Dickinson (Trillian Astra), Mark Wing-Davey (Zaphod Beeblebrox), David Tate (Eddie the Computer), Martin Benson (Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz), Richard Evelyn Vernon (Slartibartfast), Valentine Dyall (Deep Thought)

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