"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now."
"Exactly!"said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
"So this is it,"said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes,"said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!"He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?"he cried."What? Where?"cried Arthur, twisting round."No, I was only fooling,"said Ford, "we are going to die after all."
"Exactly!"said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means."
"Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?"