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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Hardwired
Inception
Devised
Bureaucracy
Error
Errors
Anything
Men

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