The Great Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler could talk all four legs off an Arcturan MegaDonkey. Only I could persuade him to go for a walk afterwards.

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deep thought donkeys persuasion

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

You can hear this line at 00:07:19.030 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- Can we just clear this up? O Deep Thought, are you not a greater computer than the Milliard Gargantubrain, which can count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond?

- The Milliard Gargantubrain? A mere abacus! Mention it not.

- Are you not a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity?

- Googleplex Star Thinker?

- Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

- But are you not a more fiendish disputant than the Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus 12?

- The Great Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler could talk all four legs off an Arcturan MegaDonkey. Only I could persuade him to go for a walk afterwards.

- Then, what is the problem?

- There is no problem.

- I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me.

- I think this is getting needlessly messianic.

- A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate, but which it will be my destiny, eventually, to design.

- Look, can we get on and ask the question?

- Oh, all right.

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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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