From Björn Springfeldt’s lecture at a cultural breakfast, Värmdö Municipality, 2016:

“As a conclusion to my talk, I would like to offer one more reading recommendation: ‘Kreativitetens filosofi’ by Nils-Eric Sahlin, a wonderful stimulus for thought, where, alongside Epaminondas and Monteverdi, we encounter Dan Wolgers—and what you see here is a work by Danne.

The National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm wanted to create an exhibition about the digital revolution, which is based on zero and one, on empty space and fullness, and they invited Dan Wolgers, who wanted to pay tribute to the Enlightenment by contributing a lamp.
He made this one, complete with plug, light bulb, and switch—but not just one, a hundred.

The King was to inaugurate it, and the artist suggested that the act should consist of the King turning off Dan Wolgers’s lamp.
The artist, of course, could then turn it on again by technical means.
The Royal Court let it be known that His Majesty could consider turning on a lamp—but not turning one off.
[…]

The mathematician Olov Bergvall told me that the King’s chance of turning on the lamp is one in a number with thirty zeros. I am terrible at mathematics and asked for an analogy, and Olov Bergvall said, “OK, I’ll call you tomorrow.”

He called and said that the chance was like 1 divided by the weight of the sun in kilograms, or like 1 divided by the number of molecules in the world’s largest elephant, which weighed 11 tons.

When I still didn’t understand despite this pedagogical effort, he said, “OK, I’ll call you tomorrow.”
He did, and suggested that I imagine that at the formation of the Earth, one began to grow grass on all available land and continued doing so for about 10 billion years—until the Earth dies.

The hay is piled into an ever larger stack, and somewhere inside it there is a needle.”