A computer which can calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question.

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

You can hear this line at 00:17:08.578 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- 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?

- The Ultimate Question?

- Of Life, the Universe and Everything?

- But, can you do it?

- No! But I'll tell you who can.

- I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me. A computer whose merest operational parameters, I am not worthy to calculate. Yet, I will design it for you.

- A computer which can calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question.

- A computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix.

- And you, yourselves, shall take on new forms and go down into the computer to navigate its ten million-year program.

- Yes, I shall design this computer for you. And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called, the Earth!

- Oh, what a dull name.

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