A monkey won't do the trick

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

But you don’t have infinite amounts of time.

So you may be thinking: “get more monkeys!”

But I can see that getting expensive pretty fast. Plus, you’ll have to read all the meaningless trash each monkey comes up with before it stumbles on your masterpiece.

Trust a friend; if you need the Hamlet, don’t hire a monkey to write it.

Image by Magda Ehlers