“Computers can't find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball ...” — Debra Fischer Quote

“Computers can't find the unexpected, but people can when they eyeball the data.”

“Once we see stars with three times the metal content of our sun, the planet detection rate goes up to 20 per cent.”

“The universe has told us the most common types of planets are small planets, and our study shows these are exactly the ones that are most likely to be orbiting Alpha Centauri A and B.”

“For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.”

“I was standing on the shoulders of other science fiction writers like William Gibson, who had written 'Neuromancer' on a typewriter before home computers even really existed, and Neal Stephenson who wrote 'Snow Crash' in the early '90s and imagined an online virtual world before the birth of the modern Internet.”