Today's topic for discussion is...
...this misinterpretation of the famous theorem, one I like to use to summarize the business of software development (along the lines described in The Mythical Man-Month):

If an arbitrary number of monkeys, given an infinite amount of time, will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare, then
    (1) an arbitrary number of designers and developers, given a finite amount of time, can produce a single piece of software that works properly, and
    (2) that finite amount of time is inversely proportional to the amount of designers and developers allocated to the software.

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