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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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There's violence in my culture [from America's South].
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