"It's a very effective, compelling visualization tool, and it's open; that is, when someone asks me a question at a presentation, I can actually modify the code on the fly to take account of their new assumption, rerun the model, and present it...they find it a useful tool for thinking about the problem"

"Now that we have the powers of Mathematica, especially some of the new stuff [in Mathematica] we can do things we couldn't do before.... We can get better results and we can do it quickly."