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The following is a list of the setters who have set Listener mathematicals.
Aedites, Amicus, Arden, Botox, Brimstone, Child's Play, Dave, Elap, Googly, gwizardry, Hedgehog, IOA, ITR+, Kea, Nipper, Nod, Oyler, Pandiculator, Piccadilly, Pie, Ploy, Polymath, Radix, Ruslan, Smudge, Tangent, Trev, Uptodate, Viking, Word Processor, Xanthippe, Zag.

Apologies if this question is one whose answer would be considered too revealing, but are we meant to assume all answers are integers? (In other words, that no decimal points are necessary to enter into the grid.)

All clue answers are whole numbers.

I’ve solved the wretched thing, and the quote I have come up with makes perfect sense but I can’t find it anywhere on the internet, even searching for just the longest two words. Can anyone hint at a source for the quote?

CS - it’s a paraphrase not a direct quote and there’s a hint among the clues

Found it now. Searched for something from the preamble instead. Quite a paraphrase but okay I suppose.

I hope this is not too much information but the actual statement is in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Will this do? -
...looks like the right sort of non-determinism - even if total BS...and what a lovely name!:

“There's magic at the intersection of quantum computing, Artificial Intelligence, and additive manufacturing.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

(He forgot Arts and Tramways...)

I've now run into a dead end three times and am starting over yet again. No idea where I'm going wrong; this doesn't FEEL as difficult as some other numerics (although I've only encountered a handful) so I must be making it more difficult than it needs to be somehow, I suppose. I'll be quite sad to break my streak if I can't crack this thing!

...And I have managed to complete the grid and, ostensibly, the message, although it seems slightly garbled and it's now far too late for me to figure out whether I have a letter wrong here and there or whether the concept of "paraphrasing" is going further than I would have expected it to. Relieved to have made it this far, though!