The speech you hear decodes the brainwave matrix.

4 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 1 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:28:49.520 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- What's happening?

- We're going into hyperspace!

- I'll never be cruel to a gin and tonic again!

- The Babel fish is small, yellow, leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the universe.

- It feeds on brainwave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and then excreting telepathically a matrix formed from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain.

- The practical upshot of which is that if you stick one in your ear, you instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

- The speech you hear decodes the brainwave matrix.

- Now, it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could evolve purely by chance, that many thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

- The argument runs something like this.

- I refuse to prove that I exist, says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

- But, says man, the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It proves you exist, and so therefore you don't. Q.E.D.

[...]

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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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