Look at me, I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway. Where's the sense in that? None that I've been able to make out.

— Slartibartfast (Richard Evelyn Vernon)

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

You can hear this line at 00:18:48.981 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Ten million years of planning and work gone, just like that. Well, that's bureaucracy for you.

- You know, this explains a lot. Because, all my life, I've had this unaccountable feeling in my bones that something sinister was happening in the Universe and that no one would tell me what it was.

- Oh, no, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that.

- Ah! Well, maybe that means something? That outside the Universe we know, some alien intelligence...

- Maybe. Who cares?

- Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say: hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

- Look at me, I design coastlines. I got an award for Norway. Where's the sense in that? None that I've been able to make out.

- I've been doing fjords all my life. For a fleeting moment, they become fashionable, I get a major award.

- In this replacement Earth we're doing, I've been given Africa, and I'm doing it with whole fjords again because I like them. I'm old-fashioned enough to think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent. Then, they tell me it's not equatorial enough.

- What does it matter?

- Science has achieved some wonderful things, I know, but I'd far rather be happy than right, any day.

- No. That's where it all falls down, of course.

- Pity. Sounded like a rather good lifestyle, otherwise.

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But, did you tell them what we discovered? -What? Norway. -Slartibartfast's signature on the glacier.

My left arm's disappeared. How am I going to operate my digital watch now?

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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