I describe myself as the second greatest, and such I am.

— Deep Thought (Valentine Dyall)

deep thoughtself deprecating

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

You can hear this line at 00:06:32.787 in the Blu-ray version of the episode.

Quote context

[...]

- Do not be alarmed.

- Only after Deep Thought has been programmed with all the knowledge in the Universe, do two men, selected of all their race, approach it.

- What is this great task for which I, Deep Thought, the second greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space have been called into existence?

- Ahem. Your task, O Computer...

- No, wait a minute. Did he say, second greatest?

- O Deep Thought, are you not as we designed you to be, the greatest, the most powerful computer of all time?

- I describe myself as the second greatest, and such I am.

- Can we just clear this up? O Deep Thought, are you not a greater computer than the Milliard Gargantubrain, which can count all the atoms in a star in a millisecond?

- The Milliard Gargantubrain? A mere abacus! Mention it not.

- Are you not a greater analyst than the Googleplex Star Thinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity?

- Googleplex Star Thinker?

- Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff.

[...]

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