The law of averages

[Mike_Yates]

According to the law of averages, an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters given an infinite amount of time will eventually print out the entire works of William Shakespeare.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That is not the law of averages.

That is called probability.

And Mike,

Nobody, but nobody uses typewriters any more...

 

[CandiCame]

I kinda feel like they'd break the typewriters before they actually typed anything. Have you ever used one of those things? You gotta beat the shit out of it to get it to work. Hurts your hands.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

That's why we had to practice piano...



To toughen up our hands to type.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/images/icp/K133066M98119R62/us__en_us__ibm100__selectric__selectric_two__839x800.jpg


For the record, I have three . . . count 'em, three . . . manual typewriters that I haven't parted with yet.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You mean ones without the cord...



Wherever will we get an infinite amount of bananas?

 

[RedAllan]

I kinda feel like they'd break the typewriters before they actually typed anything. Have you ever used one of those things? You gotta beat the shit out of it to get it to work. Hurts your hands.

Is that the monkeys or the typewriters?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Yes, no cords.


Two are Coronas.


That's right, before they merged with Smith.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Is that the monkeys or the typewriters?

ok


I laughed...

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

Listen here... Is this infinite amount of monkeys subject to evolution, or not?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Listen here... Is this infinite amount of monkeys subject to evolution, or not?

Can can infinite amount breed and become greater than infinite?

 

[pointless]

i have a typewriter.

in my closet.

collecting dust and being all obsolete and shit.

 

[Desiremakesmeweak]

It can can.

 

[Mike_Yates]

The typewriters would probably break before the monkeys were able to print out any legible text.

 

[SuprSalor]

http://www.quotehd.com/imagequotes/authors12/tmb/robert-wilensky-quote-weve-all-heard-that-a-million-monkeys-banging-on.jpg

Pretty much sums up the GB..

 

[Que]

I collect all kinds of old kitchen appliances and old power tools. I regret not grabbing up a nice sampling of typewriters when dot-matrix printers came out. Hell, Now that I think of it, a working dot-matrix printer is an anachronism. When I was packing up the Query Family Estate for mom last month, she wanted to hang onto her Brother typewriter. Probably one of the last produced. It has memory, you type, backspace, make corrections and when you are done, you hit print and out comes a perfectly struck, type-written page.

Sort of somewhere between a lovely hand-written note on parchment and an email.

Remember the texture of a typed page?

 

[yossi]

http://www.quotehd.com/imagequotes/authors12/tmb/robert-wilensky-quote-weve-all-heard-that-a-million-monkeys-banging-on.jpg

Pretty much sums up the GB..

Yeah, we can't even pull off the collected works of Curious George.

 

[Que]

Yeah, we can't even pull off the collected works of Curious George.

Hey! H.A. Rey did some excellent work. How else would the world have learned to make paper boats?

 

[PeteHulbert37]

My typewriter is busted.

 

[someoneyouknow]

That is not the law of averages.

That is called probability.

And Mike,

Nobody, but nobody uses typewriters any more...

Boy are you wrong:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/01/smallbusiness/typewriter-repair-obsolete-jobs-tom-hanks/

 

[parodyluvr75]

Yeah, we can't even pull off the collected works of Curious George.

Hey.

http://wf360.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452408569e20115721366de970b-pi

 

[Miasorrow]

There is something about typewriters ...

The short delay between sounds when you are pressing the heavy keys gives you the appropriate amount of time to think more of what you are writing..

It seems on the GB we just type..

 

[Super-Surprise]

http://img.s-msn.com/tenant/amp/entityid/BBhYnXT.img?h=442&w=948&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1185&y=1477