Why did the chicken cross the road?

"Because it's there."
-- Sir Edmund Hillary

"Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference."
-- Einstein

"It was an unconscious drive."
-- Freud

"It was the logical next step after coming down from the trees."
-- Darwin

"To actualize its potential."
-- Aristotle

"For the greater good"
-- Plato

"It didn't cross the road; it transcended it."
-- Emerson

"Because it had an innate road-crossing capacity (IRCC)."
-- Chomsky

"The eternal hen-principle made it do it."
-- Goethe

"Because if you gaze too long across the Road, the Road gazes also across you."
-- Nietzsche

"You tell me."
-- The Sphinx

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