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3.17sI won't, Mother. And I won't forget you, Manjula.
3.54sI'm so sorry our arranged marriage will not come to pass.
2.17sFarewell, my beloved.
3.04sI enrolled at Springfield Heights Institute of Technology...
3.94sunder the tutelage of the brilliant professor, john Frink.
4.24sWell, sure, the Frinkiac 7 looks impressive-- don't touch it--
4.14sbut I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful,
2.3s10,000 times larger...
4.54sand so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them.
2.23sCould it be used for dating?
1.77sWell, theoretically, yes.
4.94sBut the computer matches would be so perfect as to eliminate the thrill of romantic conquest.
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3.94sNine glorious years later, I completed my Ph.D. thesis.
3.03s200,000 precisely ordered punch cards...
3.47scomprising the world's very first tic-tac-toe program.
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