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[Sometime in the depths of prehistory] a less than infinite assortment of bipedal hominids split off from a not-quite infinite group of chimp-like australopithecines, and then another quite finite band of less hairy primates split off from the first motley crew of biped. And in a very finite amount of time, [one of] these primates did write Hamlet.
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— Jiro Tanaka on the problem of whether infinite monkeys with typewriters would produce Hamlet, quoted in Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal (via astationaryjew)
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