Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches? - Douglas Adams

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don’t. It’s like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don’t hurt it. Not even major surgery if it’s done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.

Marvin was humming ironically because he hated humans so much.