Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.

I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

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.