The question is...

[sun of sand]

fit

[Struan Gray]

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection" Henri Poincaré

quoted in Bertrand Russell's introduction to "Science and Method". The whole introduction is worth a read: it's available in the limited preview at Google Books:

http://books.google.se/books?id=QPXa...ethod+poincare


As for the original question: Peano and Cantor proved that there are as many points in a plane as on a line, so randomly generating photographs is mathematically equivalent to randomly generating sonnets. The engineer in me would bung in a couple more dozen monkeys to allow for the different boundary conditions. That, and an infinite supply of buns.