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?
10 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:10:16.733 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- And we want this machine off, and we want it off now!
- We demand that you get rid of it!
- I'll tell you what the problem is, mate. Demarcation, that's the problem.
- We demand that demarcation may or may not be the problem.
- I mean, what's the use of us sitting around half the night arguing whether there may...
- If this machine only goes and gives you his phone number in the morning?
- That's right! We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
- 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!
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