I find the last bit the most poignant observation there. "Monkeys pounding on the keyboard" has been taken to mean an unintelligent being diligently typing at

I find the last bit the most poignant observation there. "Monkeys pounding on the keyboard" has been taken to mean an unintelligent being diligently typing at random. That experiment showed that one monkey probably leaned on the "s" key for a bit and that's it. If we literally meant (generations of) monkeys with indestructible keyboards, it seems more likely that they would evolve intelligence far sooner than they would bang out complete sentences on accident.