Just espied this quote on Zigzackly; it puts blogging in perspective.
We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually produce a masterpiece. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.- Eyler Coates
...which reminds me of this wonderful poem:
ReplyDeleteAn Infinite Number of MonkeysAfter all the Shakespeare, the book
of poems they type is the saddest
in history.
But before they can finish it,
they have to wait for that Someone
who is always
looking to look away. Only then
can they strike the million
keys that spell
humiliation and grief, which are
the great subjects of Monkey
Literature
and not, as some people still
believe, the banana
and the tire.
-- Ronald Koertge
That sad song is no more sad. We have Linux, Wikipedia, Seti@Home...I could go on counting the masterpieces we MilionMonkeys are churning out.
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