Adams is.. (was?) awesome
“ The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do.' I typed it out. End of story. ”
The Hitch Hiker Series are some of my favorites.
"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" (4th book in his trilogy)
