Exactly. You have to know what the question actually is, in order to know what the answer means.
— Deep Thought (Valentine Dyall)
9 seconds sound clip from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) - Episode 4 sitcom.
You can hear this line at 00:16:12.355 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.
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- 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.
- Well, can you please tell us the question?
- Yes!
- Of Life, the Universe and Everything?
- Yes!
- Tricky.
- No! But I'll tell you who can.
- Tell us!
- Tell us.
- A computer which can calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question.
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