It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme… — Douglas Adams
It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.
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It said: "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?"
"What's up?"
"I don't know," said Marvin, "I've never been there."
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
