We have all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now,thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum.
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If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes.
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare
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We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters
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