“If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, becau...” — Gloria Steinem Quote

“If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.”

“For twenty years, not a week went by when I wasn't on a plane.”

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”

“Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.”

“I'm gonna bring Bad Brains vibes 'cos that's what I do.”

“Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries - the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that? I don't think those countries have better brains.”