.... and after seven and a half million years Deep Thought of pondering, Deep Thought, having proudly pronounced the answer as 42 stated " I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
Deep Thought then went on to design a computer so complicated that organic life itself would form part of the design matrix. Unfortunately, just before the program had come to fruition, the Vogons came along and blew up this wonderful computer, quaintly named the Earth, to male for a Hyperspace Bypass.