“They get bored and they shit on the keyboard rather than type.”
Geoff Cox of the University of Plymouth commenting on a study to see how close six macaques given a computer would get to the complete works of Shakespeare in four weeks (The Guardian, London, 9 May)
“By the law of averages Jonathan should be dead. But his swallow has got stronger and his gag reflex has strengthened.”
Don Simms, father of vCJD patient Jonathan Simms on his progress since having a course of the blood-thinning drug PPS injected into his brain (The Times, London, 12 May)
“They are simple people, they don’t know about…
