Stephen Wolfram

Is it something where you have axioms for how people work and then you're trying to figure out the consequences?

That's kind of more like the way he was doing physics.

There are these underlying laws of physics and then we're working out their consequences.

Oh, that was fun.

Oh, I think he had what one might call childlike curiosity, which I think most children have.

The question is, do they lose it before they get to adulthood?

And I think that he was a strong enough-willed person who wanted to think in his own way for himself that he kept that childlike curiosity.

Okay, well, let's see.

I'm Stephen Wolfram, and I do science and technology, and I've done that for many years.

I happened to organize the theoretical physics seminars at Caltech for a while and would invite all sorts of people, and Feynman would come and he would try and have this competition with me for who could find the fatal flaw first.

which was actually in the end, there was some terrible moments there where it was an embarrassing thing, although some interesting science got done as a result.

I think Dick Feynman was, he liked being on his own, doing his thing.

He was not interested really in organizing other people to do things.

He liked to have intellectual fun.

He would find a problem he thought was interesting, the next hill in physics, and he would go and try and take it.

If somebody said, you've got to strategically achieve this or that, he would say, I just don't want to do that.

I'm just doing the things I like to do.

I suppose one person who I knew who strangely Feynman had certain similarities with is Steve Jobs.

They both had this let's get to the essence of the thing.

They were both very much of a what's the real point?