"All right," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question . . . "
"Yes . . . !"
"Of Life, the Universe and Everything . . . " said Deep Thought.
"Yes . . . !"
"Is . . . " said Deep Thought, and paused.
"Yes . . . !"
"Is . . . "
"Yes . . . !!!. . . ?"
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with innite majesty and calm."
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I like this quote though and have found that 42 is indeed the answer to a great many things. One of the questions on a final my Sophomore year in college was "What is the answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything..." Fortunately I had read HHG2G and knew that c. 42 was the correct answer. Furthermore, if you google, "answer to life, the universe and everything" check out what the google calculator returns...it's 42.
The significance of 42 in the book is simple, it's the answer to the Great Question of Life the Universe and Everything. Unfortunately no one thought to figure out what the Great Question was and an answer without a question is pretty useless. The mice (yes, mice. Though if truth be told they are really super intelligent pan-dimensional beings.) constructed a computer to divulge the answer to the Great Question, which gave them 42. They failed to realize that they didn't know the Great Question so then decided they would need to build a better computer to calculate the question, this better computer would be called "Earth" which was blown up at the beginning of this novel 5 minutes before it was going to reveal the Great Question.
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Thief! I was going to use this quote, although I was going to go back and focus more on the idea of you don’t always get what you want. It is true that noting makes sense if you don’t know what you’re looking at, but in the case of 42, It’s just a supreme idea that gives meaning to a search.
Awesome! I never knew that so many things in life could involve the number 42. It is actually pretty weird. But that is kind of pointless to have the answer to the Great Question of Life the Universe and Everything without knowing what the question actually is. That truly seems kind of funny to me. I am interested to see if they find out what the question is or not.
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