I first read it 50 years ago in 'One, Two, Infinity' by George Gamow, in his discussion of entropy, physics stuff. A good book if you haven't read it.
Karl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:39 PM Subject: Re: Message Boards > On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, at 3:30pm, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > That's a pretty good description of the Internet, though, and it hasn't > > happened yet... > > (I forget where I first heard that) > > Generally attributed as: > > "Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million > typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." > -- Blair Houghton > > -- > Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | > | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | > | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | > > > ***************************************************************** > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. > ***************************************************************** ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
