- 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.
12 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:09:25.740 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
Quote context
[...]
- Yes. Life, the Universe and Everything. There is an answer.
- There is an answer! At last!
- But I'll have to think about it.
- We demand admission! We demand that you can't keep us out. We demand that you can't keep us out!
- Who are you? Get out of here!
- And I demand that I am Vroomfondel!
- It's all right. You don't need to demand that.
- All right. I am Vroomfondel! And that is not a demand. That is a solid fact.
- 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.
- I demand that I may, or may not be Vroomfondel!
- 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.
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