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RH: What kind of runner can run as fast as they possibly can from the very start of a race?
[Audience reply: Sprinter]
RH: Right, only somebody who runs really short races, okay?
[Audience laughter]
RH: But of course, we are programmers, and we are smarter than runners, apparently, because we know how to fix that problem, right? We just fire the starting pistol every hundred yards and call it a new sprint.
[Audience laughter and applause]