經典科幻文學:《銀河系漫遊指南》第25章6

"Seven and a half million years," said Deep Thought.
Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other.
"Seven and a half million years ...!" they cried in chorus.
"Yes," declaimed Deep Thought, "I said I'd have to think about it, didn't I? And it occurs to me that running a programme like this is bound to create an enormous amount of popular publicity for the whole area of philosophy in general. Everyone's going to have their own theories about what answer I'm eventually to come up with, and who better to capitalize on that media market than you yourself? So long as you can keep disagreeing with each other violently enough and slagging each other off in the popular press, you can keep yourself on the gravy train for life. How does that sound?"
The two philosophers gaped at him.
"Bloody hell," said Majikthise, "now that is what I call thinking. Here Vroomfondel, why do we never think of things like that?"
"Dunno," said Vroomfondel in an awed whisper, "think our brains must be too highly trained Majikthise."
So saying, they turned on their heels and walked out of the door and into a lifestyle beyond their wildest dreams.

“750萬年。”深思回答說。
朗克維爾和福克對望了一眼。
“750萬年！”他們異口同聲地說。
“是的。”深思說，“我曾經說過必須想一想，不是嗎？我想到了，運行這樣一個程序，勢必引發以大衆哲學爲主題的媒體狂潮。對於我最終得出的答案，每個人都會有一種理論，而在傳媒市場上，說到這個話題，有誰能夠比你們更有話語權呢？只要你們堅持互相猛烈攻擊，在大衆傳媒上互打耳光，只要你們有聰明的經紀人，你就能一輩子賺大錢，不費吹灰之力。這聽起來怎麼樣？”
兩個哲學家目瞪口呆地望着他。
“該死的，”曼吉克塞斯說，“這纔是我稱之爲思想的東西。你瞧，盧姆方德爾，我們怎麼從來沒有想到過這些呢？”
“不知道。”盧姆方德爾帶着敬畏之情耳語道，“我們的腦子一定是訓練得太過有素了，曼吉克塞斯。”
這樣說着，他們轉身走出門去，投身於一種超越他們以往最瘋狂的夢想的生活之中。