so what now patience, persistence, and perspective bruce sterling described these in 1994 as most the important virtues for the computer industry to embrace. 'normally somewhat dull virtues' 'the most difficult to manifest from within a revolution' if you think the revolution is over you aren't paying attention especially when you're all shouldering generations of neglected architectural responsbilities i did apologize for that already... politically minded disposition never hurts involvement with policy and research communities help educate at least one