Ten million years of planning and work gone, just like that. Well, that's bureaucracy for you.

— Slartibartfast (Richard Evelyn Vernon)

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

You can hear this line at 00:18:02.680 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

Quote context

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- 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.

- So, there you have it. Deep Thought designed the Earth. We built it and you lived on it.

- And the Vogons destroyed it five minutes before the program was completed.

- Ten million years of planning and work gone, just like that. Well, that's bureaucracy for you.

- You know, this explains a lot. Because, all my life, I've had this unaccountable feeling in my bones that something sinister was happening in the Universe and that no one would tell me what it was.

- Oh, no, that's just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that.

- Ah! Well, maybe that means something? That outside the Universe we know, some alien intelligence...

- Maybe. Who cares?

- Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say: hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

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