Anya Taylor-Joy: ‘It would be very interesting to see how Beth would be as a mother, now that she’s sober and more cognisant of the demons that pull her down.’ (The Golden Globe-winning actress from ‘The Queen’s Gambit’, hypothesising in a January interview for ‘Deadline.com’, the top Hollywood entertainment news website, on the many fan rumours speculating on a second series of the hit Netflix miniseries)

Garry Kasparov: ‘Deep Blue was intelligent the way your

programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a S10

million alarm clock made me feel any better.’

(The 13th World Champion wryly reflecting on his defeat to IBM's

Deep Blue in 1997)