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I dreamed a place where I have come to dwell
Cold Mountain says it all
Monkeys scream, the valley fog is cold
My door blends with the color of the peaks
I gather leaves and thatch a hut among the pines
Dig a pond and lead a trickle from the brook
Long ago I left the world behind
Eating ferns I pass the years in peace
Hanshan
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If the resident zoologist of Galaxy X had visited the earth 5 million years ago while making his inventory of inhabited planets in the universe, he would surely have corrected his earlier report that apes showed more promise than Old World monkeys and noted that monkeys had overcome an original disadvantage to gain domination among primates. (He will confirm this statement after his visit next year but also add a footnote that one species from the ape bush has enjoyed an unusual and unexpected flowering, thus demanding closer monitoring.)

stephen jay gould

— "The Declining Empire of Apes", p. 288

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The fact that ACPI was designed by a group of monkeys high on LSD, and is some of the worst designs in the industry obviously makes running it at any point pretty damn ugly.

linus torvalds

— Torvalds, Linus (2005-07-31). Message. linux-kernel mailing list. IU. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.

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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 entire works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the internet, we now know this isn't true.

Ian Hart

— 2001In the Sunday Herald, 30 Dec.

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Pouter, tumbler and fantail are from the same source;The racer and hack may be traced to one horse;So men were developed from monkeys of course,Which nobody can deny.

charles neaves

— Originally published in The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1872).

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Our producer Nick thinks it's a dance record, and who are we to disagree? Don't be alarmed though, we won't be donning face masks and Gore-Tex like Altern 8, or dancing like electric monkeys. Apart from Lukas (Wooller, keyboards).

paul smith

— NME

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We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

stephen hawking

— Der Spiegel (17 October 1988)

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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there!

Henry James

— The Madonna of the Future (1879)

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From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.

li bai

— [33] Moon over Mountain Pass

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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program.

linus torvalds

— Linux 1.3.53 CodingStyle documentation (1995). Retrieved on 2011-08-13.

Tags: infinite, number, typing, GNU, emacs, never, good, program

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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.

linus torvalds

— Torvalds, Linus (2008-07-15). Linux 2.6.25.10. Retrieved on 2008-07-16.

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An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU Emacs would never make a good program.


— Linus Torvalds, Linux 1.3.53 CodingStyle documentation

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Cats and monkeys monkeys and cats all human life is there!


— The Madonna of the Future (1879)

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The monkeys themselves, without instruction from any quarter, learn to use sticks in fighting, and some build houses an act which cannot in their case be considered as one of instinct, but of intelligence.


— p.320 (Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844))

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Pouter, tumbler and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.


— Originally published in The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1872).

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From the walls of Baidi high in the coloured dawn To Jiangling by night-fall is three hundred miles, Yet monkeys are still calling on both banks behind me To my boat these ten thousand mountains away.


— [33] Moon over Mountain Pass

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Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats - all human life is there.

Henry James

— Henry James, The Madonna of the Future (1879)

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"Mein Gott! I would sooner collect life red devils than liddle monkeys."

rudyard kipling

— Rudyard Kipling, "Bertran and Bimi" (1891)

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Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

charles neaves

— Charles Neaves, The Origin of Species; Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 241-42.

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We're going to give men what they really want to see on TV. monkeys, midgets, beer drinking and women jumping on trampolines.

jimmy kimmel

— On the start of The Man Show — reported in Walt Belcher (June 13, 1999) "Wise guys Corolla, Kimmel revel in new 'Man Show'", The Tampa Tribune, p. 4.

Tags: going, give, men, what, want, see, TV, midgets, beer

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monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.

Kenneth Grahame

— The Golden Age. "Lusisti Satis"

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So far as cerebral structure goes... it is clear that Man differs less from the Chimpanzee or the Orang, than these do even from the monkeys, and that the difference between the brains of the Chimpanzee and of Man is almost insignificant, when compared with that between the Chimpanzee brain and that of a Lemur.

thomas henry huxley

— Ch.2, p.120

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I divined and chose a distant place to dwell T'ien T'ai: what more is there to say? monkeys cry where valley mists are cold My grass gate blends with the color of the crags I pick leaves to thatch a hut among the pines Scoop out a pond and lead a runnel from the spring By now I am used to doing without the world Picking ferns I pass the years that are left


— Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T'ang Poet Han-shan (1970), tr. Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-03450-4

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monkeys, who very sensibly refrain from speech lest they should be set to earn their livings.


— Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age, (1895), "Lusisti Satis"

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I divined and chose a distant place to dwell T'ien T'ai: what more is there to say? monkeys cry where valley mists are cold My grass gate blends with the color of the crags I pick leaves to thatch a hut among the pines Scoop out a pond and lead a runnel from the spring By now I am used to doing without the world Picking ferns I pass the years that are left

han shan

— Cold Mountain: 100 Poems by the T'ang Poet Han-shan (1970), tr. Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, ISBN 0-231-03450-4

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