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- But the program will take me a little while to run.
- How long?
- Seven, and a half...
- What? Not till next week?
- Million years.

deep thought

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

You can hear this line at 00:11:18.073 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Might I make an observation at this point?

- You keep out of this, Metal Nose!

- We demand that that machine not be allowed to think about this problem!

- If I might make an observation.

- All I wanted to say was this: my circuits are now irrevocably committed to calculating the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, Universe, and Everything.

- But the program will take me a little while to run.

- How long?

- Seven, and a half...

- What? Not till next week?

- Million years.

- How long?

- I said I'd have to think about it.

- And it occurs to me that running a program like this is bound to create considerable interest in the whole area of popular philosophy.

- Yes? Keep talking.

- Everyone's going to have his own theory about what answer I'm eventually going to come up with.

[...]

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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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