Douglas Adams Thought Quotations

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,' said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.

For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was...

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.