Stephen Wolfram

"If we want to have a predictable life... then we have to build in these... pockets of reducibility. If we were... existing in this irreducible world, we'd never be able to... know what's going to happ…"

"It's clear that we can go further than the quantum mechanics that I've known for the last fifty years."

"It was the spring of 1978 and I was 18 years old. I’d been publishing papers on particle physics for a few years, and had gotten quite known around the international particle physics community . I was…"

"I had a very selfish reason for building Mathematica. I wanted to use it myself, a bit like Galileo got to use his telescope four hundred years ago. But I wanted to look, not at the astronomical unive…"

"I think Computation is destined to be the defining idea of our future."

"This is what you... learn from this principle of computational equivalence. ...t's both a message of ...hope, and ... you're not as special as you think you are... We're just doing computations like t…"

"What's happened is, for 300 years people basically said, "If you want to make a model of things in the world, mathematical equations are the best place to go. In the last 15 years: it doesn't happen. …"

"I'm committed to seeing this project done. To see if within this decade we can finally hold in our hands the rule for our universe, and know where our universe lies in the space of all possible univer…"