Why did the chicken cross the road?
CHECK HILARIOUS ANSWERS FROM HIGHLY PLACED INDIVIDUALS LIKE BILL GATES, HILLARY CLINTON, ALBERT EINSTEIN etc.

The timeworn and pedestrian answer is simply "to get to the other side."
Here are some creative and original answers:
The chicken crossed the road. This fact is rarely disputed. But why did the chicken cross the road? No entirely satisfactory explanation has ever been agreed upon. The most popular reason is purely that the chicken crossed to get to the other side. If this is correct then many jokes have been spoiled or ruined.
The most interesting question is who originally came up with the answer. If it were the writer, then the question would be solved.
However, at the Fourth Chicken Crossing Conference, held in the Poultry World Hall of Fame on May 10-12, 2000, a team of distinguished scholars met once again to consider this poultry matter in depth. Unfortunately once again, no consensus was reached. Here are some points considered and some possibilities based on observations using chicken psychology tests, media reports, forensic evidence, public and private investigations and human intuition, put forward to explain the behavior of the chicken. It is hoped that at the next conference further progress toward a definitive answer will be made:
1. The chicken wanted to learn about its family history (i.e. which came first the chicken or the egg) so it crossed the road to get to the library on the other side.
2. The chicken was feeling confident, it was a nice spring day, traffic was light, visibility was good, all the other chickens crossed the road so naturally this one didn't want to appear anti-social, contrary, and oddly different.
3. It was just a matter of time before it happened because, just as every chicken loves some chicken sometime, every chicken will cross some sort of road sometime.
4. Because it felt like it.
5. Because it needed the exercise.
6. Because it wished to avoid meeting the chicken it saw approaching.
7. God ordained from the time of Creation that this chicken should come into the world and should cross the road exactly when it did.
8. Having spent days and nights searching its soul the chicken finally decided that it had to cross the road and did so.
9. It all depends on what is meant by "why," "chicken," "road" and "cross."
10. It got bored.
11. It had a death wish.
12. It had already crossed the road 999 times that day and wanted to make it 1000.
13. It had always been intending to and finally decided today was the day.
14. It saw the rooster on the other side and wanted to get laid.
15. It wanted a change of scenery.
16. It wanted to be famous.
17. It wanted to catch the bus into town.
18. It wanted to show it was not a chicken.
19. It wanted to show it was a mean chicken.
20. It was a very confused chicken.
21. It was caught by a freak gust of wind.
22. It was collecting experiences for its next book.
23. It was part of a chicken conga line which happened to be crossing the road.
24. It was trying out its new pair of roller blades on the asphalt.
25. It was trying to find its roots.
26. None of the other chickens crossed the road and this chicken wanted to be different.
27. The chicken crossed the road because it was daydreaming and did not notice it.
28. The chicken had just had its head chopped off.
29. The chicken had prayed fervently all night and at dawn Jehovah had told it to cross the road, and the chicken crossed the road, and Jehovah saw, and saw that it was good, and saith unto the chicken, Verily, thou art a rock of Chickrael.
30. The chicken was looking for love.
31. The chicken was running late and took a short cut.
32. The chicken was trying to make a difference.
33. The light turned green.
34. The Moon became conjunct with the chicken's natal Mars in its fourth house.
35. The other chickens dared it to.
36. The other chickens told it to go away.
37. The Spirit moved it.
38. The time had arrived for this chicken to cross this road.
39. This chicken inherited genes predisposing it to cross roads.
40. This was a Mormon chicken and it was setting out on its mission.
41. It got caught up in a scam offering free grain deliveries in exchange for a nude road streak.
42. All events in the chicken's entire life are fixed in 4-dimensional space time and the chicken could not have done anything else at that time (as we see things from within ordinary experience) than what it did; the chicken crossed the road because the chicken's crossing the road has been part of the eternally fixed micro structure of the 4-d block universe from the moment of its creation.
43. It was helping to stamp out bugs.
44. It was bearing the white chicken's burden.
45. It was fulfilling its Manifest Destiny.
46. It was doing God's work.
47. It was helping to make the world safe for chickocracy.
48. It was just following orders.
49. It wanted to prove to the squirrel that it could be done.
50. It wanted to prove to the opossum that it could be done.

Consider this:
1. Chicken is near a road, chicken is not near a road: 50/50 chance.
2. Chicken considers road, chicken considers something other than road: 50/50 chance.
3. Chicken considers that road can be crossed, chicken considers other aspects of road: 50/50 chance.
4. Chicken considers crossing road, chicken considers not crossing road 50/50 chance
5. Chicken crosses road, chicken does not cross road. 50/50 chance.
So, a chicken only has a 3.125% chance of actually crossing the road. In crossing the road, the chicken has beaten the overwhelming odds that it would not cross the road. Because the odds were beaten not out of intention, but rather by statistical necessity, it would appear that the chicken followed the black swan across road after talking to Schrödinger's cat.
Motivations and philosophy:
For all intents and purposes, the chicken probably crossed the road to get to the other side. But then, perhaps we should look at the deeper significance of this action.
Plato: For the greater good.
Captain James T Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.
Mr Spock: It is not logical for the chicken to have crossed the road as it would mean expending more effort than would be worth the energy value of the food he would find on the other side. If he crossed the road, it could only mean that Colonel Sanders was close behind and closing in on him. Captain - if we can approach Colonel Sanders from the correct approaching angle, we may stop him from strangling the chicken and avert this impending tragedy.
Richard Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did NOT cross the road.
Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place, anyway?
Sigmund Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying insecurity.
Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken Office 2010, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, balance your checkbook and eat your neighbor.
Charles Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
Hillary Clinton: That's what I'd like to know. Why DID the chicken cross the road?! But this administration is operating in secrecy, withholding important information from the American people, about how many chickens crossed the road and why they crossed it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream! I have a dream of a day, when ALL chickens can cross ALL roads without having their motives called into question!
Ernest Hemingway: To die. Alone. In the rain.
Official Chicken Representative: Because he wanted to. Do you not think that maybe chickens have rights too? If you crossed the road no one would question you.
Hamlet:
To cross, or not to cross, that is the question: -
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous side;
Or to take arms against a road of troubles,
And by crossing end them?
Foghorn Leghorn: That chick, ah say, that chicken crossed the road on account of I was after her tail feathers.
Jules Verne: Much knowledge of our world, and the worlds beyond, has been achieved through scientific curiosity. Under a 125 F.At 36 degree North and 115 degree East, and at 03:00 GMT, Professor Chicken entered history as his Cannon propelled him through the road.
Ronald Reagan: I forget.
Homer Simpson: There was free beer on the other side of the road.
Morpheus (from Matrix): Neo. There is no chicken.
Grandpa: In my day, we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Someone told us that the chicken crossed the road and, by gosh, that was good enough for us!
Dr Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road. Why he crossed, I've not been told!
From the cast of 'Lost': Jack Sheppard: I don't know, maybe the chicken was just moving in that direction. Why does it have to mean anything that it crossed the road?
John Locke: The Island demanded that the chicken cross at that moment.
Sawyer: Why are you so interested in the damn chicken, Colonel Sanders? Tired of mangoes?
Sayid: I know more about chickens and the use of them crossing roads than I care to remember. I know more about how to extract information from the chicken than any of you. Allow me to practice my methods. I will find out what you need to know.
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes: Dude, did you see a chicken come this way?
Colonel Sanders: I missed one?
He was running away from Popeyes-
Credits
WWW.EDUPEDIC.ML
WWW.ANSWERS.COM

it depends on the context where you want to use it