Stephen Wolfram

It's this, you know, I keep on discovering these things in all these different areas.

Where'd they come from?

Nobody knows.

But I decided that in the interests of one only has one life to lead, and writing that book took me a decade anyway.

There's not a lot of wiggle room, so to speak.

One can't be wrong by a factor of three, so to speak, in how long it's going to take.

I thought the best thing to do, the thing that most people

respect the the intellectual content so to speak is you just put it out with as much force as you can because it's not something where and you know it's an interesting thing you you talk about ego and it's it's uh you know for example i run a company which has my name on it right i i thought about starting a club for people whose whose companies have their names on them and it's it's a funny group because we're not a

It's about basically sort of taking responsibility for what one's doing.

And, you know, in a sense, any of these things where you're sort of putting yourself on the line, it's kind of a funny dynamic because, in a sense, my company is sort of something that happens to have my name on it.

But it's kind of bigger than me, and I'm kind of just its mascot at some level.

I mean, I also happen to be a pretty strong leader of it.

Yeah, it's recognizing that fact.

Yeah, right, exactly.

I think Steve had a bad deal there.

Sure, although it took 1,200 pages to say in the book.

So, no, the real idea, it's kind of a good way to get into it is to look at sort of the arc of history and to look at what's happened in kind of the development of science.

I mean, there was this sort of big idea in science about 300 years ago that was...

let's use mathematical equations to try and describe things in the world.

Let's use sort of the formal idea of mathematical equations to describe what might be happening in the world, rather than, for example, just using sort of logical augmentation and so on.