First guy is saying, "there's no point in trying to figure out the "answer to the universe", it's a lot easier to be happy if you just go with the flow".

This leads the reader to assume that he's got it all figured out and is a relatively happy guy, an assumption that is subverted when asked plainly, "are you happy?"

I don't know that there's a specific take away here, so much as it just being a funny quip in a larger exchange.

[–] MadBabs 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's a quote between two characters in Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[–] AngryCommieKender 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Wasn't this scene in Mostly Harmless? Books not movie, radio show, or miniseries.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No it was definitely in the first book, the Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy. Mostly Harmless is the last book and it doesn't include Slartibartfast.

[–] needthosepylons 5 points 6 months ago

And I think this exact quote is from the movie. It's a bit different in the book IIRC, but I prefer this one.

[–] AngryCommieKender 5 points 6 months ago

Ahh I mixed up the order. Been a couple decades since I read them. I guess I was thinking it was in Restaurant at the end of the Universe

[–] NielsBohron 3 points 6 months ago

po-tay-to, po-tah-to