42? Is that all you've got to show for 7.5 million years' work?
10 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:15:35.644 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
Quote context
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- And, are you ready to give it to us?
- I am.
- Now?
- Now!
- Wow!
- Though, I don't think you're going to like it.
- It doesn't matter. We must know it.
- Now?
- Well?
- You're really not going to like it.
- Tell us!
- The answer to the Great Question...
- Yes?
- Of Life, the Universe and Everything...
- Yes?
- Is...
- Yes?
- Is...
- Yes?
- 42? Is that all you've got to show for 7.5 million years' work?
- I think the problem is that you've never actually known what the question is.
- But it was the great question! The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything!
- Yes, but what actually is it?
- Well... Just everything. You know, everything!
- Exactly. You have to know what the question actually is, in order to know what the answer means.
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