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"I've taken some stick for passages in Altered Carbon which people complained had sickened them, but then violence should be sickening."
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![]() According to The Hitchhiker's Guide, millions of years ago there was a race of hyperintelligent pandimensional beings who wanted to know about the meaning of life. To settle the issue they built a "stupendous super computer which was so amazingly intelligent that even before the data banks had been connected up it had started from 'I think therefore I am' and got as far as the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn it off..."
Here's the first appearance of the phrase:
Don't even mention the following computers in the same sentence with Deep Thought:
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