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From: ram@nucsrl.UUCP (raman renukanthan)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: looking for reference for "British Museum" quote
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Date: Tue, 30-Dec-86 11:53:43 EST
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>>re: Missing quotation, monkeys in the basement                          
>>                                                                        
>>"If a hundred chimpanzees were to be set before a hundred typewriters   
>>typing for thousands of years at random.  They would eventually         
>>duplicate all of the works contained in the British Museum."            
>>
>>   Tom Edds             UNC-CH Psychometrics
>>   ...mcnc!unc!edds
>>
>>  "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana."


      I know for sure that Jeremy Campbell has quoted that in his book
titled "The Grammatical Man".  I longer have that book with me to look for
references to that quote and also I am not sure if he has cited any references.

      Hope this helps.

                       
                                                         Renukanthan Raman
                                             Northwestern Univ. Comp. Sci. lab