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Douglas Adams
“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy
tags: 42

Ursula K. Le Guin
“To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
tags: 42

Douglas Adams
“How many roads must a man walk down?”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy

Charles Bukowski
“The whole world is a sack of shit ripping open. I can麓t save it.”
Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

Douglas Adams
“Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams
“The only thing we can do now,鈥� said Benjy, crouching and stroking his whiskers in thought, 鈥渋s to try and fake a question, invent one that will sound plausible.鈥�
鈥淒ifficult,鈥� said Frankie. He thought. 鈥淗ow about, What's yellow and dangerous?鈥�
Benjy considered this for a moment.
鈥淣o, no good,鈥� he said. 鈥淒oesn't fit the answer.鈥�
They sank into silence for a few seconds.
鈥淎ll right,鈥� said Benjy. 鈥�What do you get if you multiply six by seven?鈥�
鈥淣o, no, too literal, too factual,鈥� said Frankie, 鈥渨ouldn't sustain the punter's interest.鈥�
Again they thought.
Then Frankie said: 鈥淗ere's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?鈥�
鈥淎h!鈥� said Benjy. 鈥淎ha, now that does sound promising!鈥� He rolled the phrase around a little. 鈥淵es,鈥� he said, 鈥渢hat's excellent! Sounds very significant without actually tying you down to meaning anything at all. How many roads must a man walk down? Forty-two. Excellent, excellent, that'll fox 'em. Frankie, baby, we are made!”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide to the Galaxy
tags: 42

Isaac Asimov
“You are easy to explain 鈥� even to you.聽 You may call yourself a soul if that pleases you, but what you are is a nexus of electromagnetic forces, so arranged that all the interconnections and interrelationships are exactly imitative of those of your brain in your Universe-existence 鈥� down to the smallest detail.聽 Therefore you have your capacity for thought, your memories, your personality.聽 It still seems to you that you are you.”
Isaac Asimov, The Last Answer

Will Advise
“The meaning of life is to make life be more.”
Will Advise