There are, of course, many problems connected with life, of which some of the most pressing are, why are people born? Why do they die? And, why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? (BEEPING)

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

You can hear this line at 00:04:43.792 in the Blu-ray version of the episode.

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- See, they really are particularly clever, hyper intelligent pan-dimensional beings.

- Attention, please! Slartibartfast. Would Slartibartfast and the visiting Earth creature, please report to the Works Reception area immediately.

- Repeat, immediately!

- However, in the field of management relations, they're absolutely shocking.

- Yes! Well, you see, every time they give me an order, I want to jump on a table and scream.

- Yes. Well, I could see that would be a problem.

- There are, of course, many problems connected with life, of which some of the most pressing are, why are people born? Why do they die? And, why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? (BEEPING)

- Many millions of years ago, a race of hyper intelligent pan-dimensional beings, became so fed up with the constant bickering about the meaning of life that they decided to sit down and solve it once and for all.

- And to this end, they built themselves a stupendous supercomputer called Deep Thought, that was so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected up, it had started from first principles with: I think therefore I am.

- And had got as far as deducing the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off.

- Do not be alarmed.

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