Stephen Wolfram
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But I think the other point about that book was it was a non-trivial question, how to take a bunch of ideas that are, I think, reasonably big ideas.
They might, you know, their importance is,
is determined by what happens historically.
One can't tell how important they are.
One can tell sort of the scope of them.
And the scope is fairly big.
And they're very different from things that have come before.
And the question is, how do you explain that stuff to people?
And so I had had the experience of sort of saying, well, there are these things.
There's a cellular automaton.
It does this.
It does that.
And people are like, oh, it must be just like this.
It must be just like that.
I said, no, it isn't.
It's something different.
Yeah.
Right.
No, I mean, that was my calculation is that basically, you know, you could introduce little pieces.
It's like, you know, one possibility is like, it's the secret weapon, so to speak.