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Yes, I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called, the Earth!

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

You can hear this line at 00:17:33.987 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Tricky.

- But, can you do it?

- No! But I'll tell you who can.

- Tell us!

- Tell us.

- I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me. A computer whose merest operational parameters, I am not worthy to calculate. Yet, I will design it for you.

- A computer which can calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question.

- A computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix.

- And you, yourselves, shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten million-year program.

- Yes, I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called, the Earth!

- Oh, what a dull name.

- So, there you have it. Deep Thought designed the Earth. We built it and you lived on it.

- And the Vogons destroyed it five minutes before the program was completed.

- Yes!

- 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.

[...]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Sound Clip

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) poster

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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