Answer according to:

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.

Douglas Adams:
42 .

Machiavelli:
So that its subjects will view it with admiration, as a chicken which has the daring and courage to boldly cross the road, but also with fear, for whom among them has the strength to contend with such a paragon of avian virtue? In such a manner is the princely chicken's dominion maintained.

Plato:
For the greater good. .

Jean-Paul Sartre:
In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein:
The possibility of "crossing" was encoded into the objects "chicken" and "road", and circumstances came into being which caused the actualization of this potential occurrence.

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

Epicurus:
For fun.

Pyrrho:
What road?

Emily Dickinson:
Because it could not stop for death.

Pat Buchanan:
To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American.

Louis Farrakhan:
The road, you will see, represents the black man. The chicken crossed the "black man" in order to trample him and keep him down.

The Bible:
And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken,"Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and it was good.

Colonel Sanders:
I missed one?

L.A. Police Department:
Give us five minutes with the chicken and we'll find out.

Richard M. Nixon:
The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road. I don't know any chickens. I have never known any chickens.

Dr. Seuss:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed, I've not been told!

Ernest Hemingway:
To die. In the rain.

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.

Grandpa:
In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. If someone told us that the chicken crossed the road, that was good enough for us.

Aristotle:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

Henry David Thoreau:
To live deliberately...and suck all the marrow out of life.

Hamlet:
That is not the question.

Othello:
Jealousy.

Pyrrho:
What road?

David Hume:
Out of custom and habit.

Karl Marx:
It was a historical inevitability.

Saddam Hussein:
This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it!

Ronald Reagan:
What chicken?

Captain James T. Kirk:
To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Fox Mulder:
You saw it cross the road with your own eyes. How many more chickens have to cross before you believe it?

Bill Gates:
I have just released Chicken '98, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook, and Explorer is an inextricable part of the operating system.

Einstein:
Did the chicken really cross the road or did the road move beneath the chicken?

Bill Clinton:
I DID NOT cross the road with THAT chicken.

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