- Ex British chess champion,
- author of "How to Cheat at Chess: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Chess, but Were Afraid to Ask." (ISBN 1857440994)
- author of the BeachComber column in the "DailyExpress" (a British "NewsPaper")
- quite entertaining speaker
Quoted as saying:
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- "If someone says 'within 5 years we can ...' then they probably know how to do it,
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- but if they say 'within 10 years we will be able to ...' they don't."
In my experience this is a pretty good predictor.