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Story-tellers should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

Bruce Sterling

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Bruce Sterling
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 14
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