“ If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about … five minutes. ”
- Anon.- Copy
- 1.3K
“ We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. ”
- Robert Wilensky- Copy
- 2.1K
“ When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. ”
- Theodore H. White- Copy
- 114
“ Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use. ”
- John O’Hara- Copy
- 950
“ I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. ”
- Clarence Buddinton Kelland- Copy
- 1.7K
“ He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed. ”
- T. E. Kalem- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare! ”
- Blair Houghton- Copy
- 3.2K
“ How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
- 354
“ Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon. ”
- Edna Ferber- Copy
- 989
“ In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age. ”
- Matt Blunt- Copy
- 500
“ There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
- 510
“ The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ”
- Robert Benchley- Copy
- 625
“ I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. ”
- Bill Hirst- Copy
- 3.6K
“ DeVries' Dilemma: If you hit two keys on the typewriter, the one you don't want hits the paper. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 370
“ I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. ”
- Solomon Short- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper… sharp pencils… typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk… roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter… and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 599
“ You know…that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum — a canvas — a piece of film — or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something — that vague thing called creation… ”
- Edward Steichen- Copy
- 2.4K
“ A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys. ”
- Barbara Holland- Copy
- 1.3K
“ There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true. ”
- Ian Hart- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy. ”
- Winston Graham- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Hotel rooms, for example, are good places for me to write because they're so free of associations. I have to get myself into my sort of tattyest sweatpants and T-shirt and I do it on a computer now, amazingly enough. I never could use a typewriter because the noise… drove me crazy, but I used to use a notebook… ”
- Alma Guillermoprieto- Copy
- 2.3K
“ The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary. ”
- Paul Gray- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
- 972
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