- O Great Computer, the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us the answer.
- The answer? The answer to what?
- Life!
- The Universe!
- Everything!

— Deep Thought (Valentine Dyall)

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

You can hear this line at 00:08:04.976 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

[...]

- Then, what is the problem?

- There is no problem.

- I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me.

- I think this is getting needlessly messianic.

- A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate, but which it will be my destiny, eventually, to design.

- Look, can we get on and ask the question?

- Oh, all right.

- O Great Computer, the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us the answer.

- The answer? The answer to what?

- Life!

- The Universe!

- Everything!

- Tricky.

- But, can you do it?

- Yes, I can do it.

- You mean, there is an answer? A simple answer?

- Yes. Life, the Universe and Everything. There is an answer.

- There is an answer! At last!

- But I'll have to think about it.

- We demand admission! We demand that you can't keep us out. We demand that you can't keep us out!

[...]

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