Monkeys Are Typing Shakespeare!

Quote of the day:
“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”
--Leonard Cohen

Quote of the day no. 2:
“’If you put a bunch of monkeys in front of typewriters, how long would it take them to compose the works of Shakespeare?’ This question originated as part of the theory of probability, and it has been tested.

“According to Darren Wershler-Henry [author of Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting], the world record for Shakespeare-reinvention belongs to the virtual monkeys supervised by Dan Oliver, of Scottsdale, Arizona.

“On August 4, 2004, after the group had worked for 42,162,500,000 billion billion monkey years, one of Oliver’s monkey’s typed, ‘VALENTINE. Cease toIdor:FLP0FRjWK78aXzVOwm)-’;8.t...,’ the first nineteen characters of which can be found in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

“Runner-up teams have produced eighteen characters from ‘Timon of Athens, seventeen from Troilus and Cressida, and sixteen from Richard II.

“Did these monkeys get federal funding?”

--Joan Acocella in the April 9, 2007 New Yorker.