- Cheap?
- A quilliad is a whole page full of noughts with a one at the beginning.

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

You can hear this line at 00:24:19.000 in the Blu-ray version of the episode.

Quote context

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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as, 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.'

- With a footnote to the effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent.

- An edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that fell through a time warp from 1000 years in the future, defines the Sirius Cybernetics Corp.'s Marketing Division as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.'

- I think this ship is brand new.

- Why, have you got some exotic device, for measuring the age of metal?

- No, I just found this sales brochure lying on the floor. It says, 'The universe can be yours for a mere five quilliad Altairian dollars.

- Cheap?

- A quilliad is a whole page full of noughts with a one at the beginning.

- Ah, listen! This is what I was after.

- Sensational new breakthrough in improbability physics...

- As the ship's drive reaches infinite improbability, it passes simultaneously through every point in the universe, being the envy of other major governments.

- I mean, wow! This is really big-league stuff!

[...]

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