Stephen Wolfram

I hope to kind of define this curriculum, and I'll figure out whether it's some... My guess is that...

I don't know, I don't really understand universities and professoring that well, but my rough guess would be a year of college class will be enough to get to the point where most people have a reasonably broad knowledge of, you know, will be sort of literate in this kind of computational way of thinking about things.

Oh, I have lots of preferences.

One of my all-time favorites is my whole life is these things, these flake things, Cadbury flakes, which are not much sold in the US.

And I've always thought that was a sign of a lack of respect for the American consumer because they're these sort of aerated chocolate that's made in a whole sort of, it's kind of a sheet of chocolate that's kind of folded up.

And when you eat it, flakes fall all over the place.

What I usually do is I eat them on a piece of paper or something.

So you embrace the mess and clean it up after.

No, I actually eat the flakes.

Because it turns out the way food tastes depends a lot on its physical structure.

And I've noticed when I eat a piece of chocolate, I usually have some little piece of chocolate.

And I always break off little pieces, partly because then I eat it less fast, but also because it actually tastes different.

The small pieces have a different, you have a different experience than if you have the big slab of chocolate.

For many reasons, yes.

Yeah, what it feels like inside, so to speak, is, you know, I did a little exercise, eventually I'll post it, of, you know, what it's like to be a computer, right?

It's kind of like, well, you get all the sensory input, you have, kind of the way I see it is, from the time you boot a computer to the time the computer crashes, it's like a human life, right?

You're building up a certain amount of state in memory.

You remember certain things about your, quote, life.

Eventually, it's kind of like the next generation of humans is born from the same genetic material, so to speak, with a little bit left over, left on the disk, so to speak.

And then, you know, the new fresh generation starts up and eventually all kinds of crud builds up in the memory of the computer and eventually the thing crashes or whatever, or maybe it has some trauma because you plugged in some weird thing to some port of the computer and that made it crash.