If you give monkeys time and typewriters, will they eventually produce Shakespeare?

If you give monkeys time and typewriters will they eventually produce Shakespeare

Eric Barker
5:12 AM Jul 02 2012

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It ain't Hamlet.

Eric Barker
5:12 AM Jul 02 2012

You have to give the monkeys enough time to evolve into humans, and then you have to give the humans enough time to breed a Shakespeare.

It could take millions of years but eventually you'll get there. A few weeks or months is not long enough to run the experiment.

Adam Rifkin
7:26 AM Jul 02 2012