What I realized is that if we're going to be able to have a theory about what happens in, for example, nature there has to ultimately be some rule by….

So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility….

Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today..

People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress in that in….

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symboli….

The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay, if mathematical equations….

It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego..

Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica ….

...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to know all the consequences of these rules….