Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Shakespeare's monkeys

Random thought of the day:
They say that if you stick enough monkeys in a room with typewriters, one of them, one day, will reproduce Shakespeare's works.
I wonder: does this mean that if you have enough people retyping Shakespeare all day, one of them, one day, will turn into a monkey? 

3 comments:

  1. I think we have enough monkeys and people to do the experiment. The only problem is: where should we find the typewriters?

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  2. I admit I hadn't though of that, but maybe we shouldn't be too literal in our interpretation, and allow computer keyboards, tablets, and smartphones to be used as well.

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  3. No problem having monkeys as long as you also have TM software... (just joking).

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