"**If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of** (strongly built) **typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that one of them would come out with an exact version of the Iliad**. "Upon examination, this may be less interesting a concept than it appears at first: Such probability is ridiculously low. But let us carry the reasoning one step beyond. **Now that we have found that hero among monkeys, would any reader invest his life’s savings on a bet that the monkey would write the [[Odyssey]] next?**" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[making-decisions]], [[statistics]], [[fooled-by-randomness]], [[data-analytics]], [[investments]], **Source** -- [[202410121132 - B - Fooled by Randomness]]