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Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.
Steven Pinker
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Steven Pinker
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 18
Anthropologist
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Montreal
Quebec
Steven Arthur Pinker
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