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It is now understood that although his company was not directly contracted to build the M1, Marples Ridgway " certainly had a finger in the pie ".
As Luther later noted, " the pope had a finger in the pie as well, because one half was to go to the building of St Peter's Church in Rome ".
"If Olivetti can share the costs of producing the computer and the costs are not significant, it might be worth it for them to keep a finger in the pie to see where this market is going, " said Susan Anthony, a computer analyst at Schroder Securities.
And when I am dead, the matter which composes my body is indestructible and eternal, so that come what may to my'Soul,'my dust will always be going on, each separate atom of me playing its separate part I shall still have some sort of a finger in the pie.