You could create a text file called alpha2omega.txt, which contains the line:

Look at the binary representation of pi; you'll find the sum of all human knowledge encoded there in ASCII, EBCDIC or any other code ever invented. You just need Google to index it all for you so it's useful.

i don't know if i believe its possible to represent all of everything in text, downvote or no. Besides it'd fork at least once before it got finished.

Space Ruler Xzorganax, I present to you: misc.txt

and if you run out of space in misc.txt, there's always stuff.txt too.

You just named two of the files i currently have on my desktop.

I think we have the same desktop.

Util.pm?

42.txt

Nah, you could. ASCII art covers most of your non-text bases.

And, if you're stuck for 3D video or textures or audio, you can cheat a little and define a 'container' and then use that 'container' within the text file. For example, imagine an XML file containing the rules on how to parse it- that is just another text file. You could do the same with any form of data. Binary data can be represented in ASCII too, they would just be 7x as large as a binary file.

pok good point but even ascii cant represent meditative, religious, or otherwise universal truths, not to mention that finishing the text file (or even getting close) would have such a cultural impact that otherwise normal history recording would be shifted.