It startled him even more when, just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness, he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists, who realised that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-arse.

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17 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 2 sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:19:47.570 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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- And in the end, they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.

- Then, one evening, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a particularly unsuccessful party, found himself reasoning this way.

- If such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability.

- So all I have to do, in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea, and turn it on.

- The moment he did this, he was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long sought-after infinite improbability generator out of thin air.

- It startled him even more when, just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness, he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists, who realised that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-arse.

- Five to one against, and falling. Four to one against, and falling. Three to one... Two... One...

- Probability factor of one to one. We have normality. I repeat, we have normality.

- Anything you still can't cope with is, therefore, your own problem.

- Who are they, Trillian?

- Just a couple of guys we picked up in open space. Sector ZZ9 Plural 2 Alpha.

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