If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!