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 which nature operates. But the issue is does that rule have to correspond to something like a mathematical equation, something that we have sort of created in our human mathematics? And what I realized is that now with our understanding of computation and computer programs and so on, there is actually a much bigger universe of possible rules to describe the natural world than just the mathematical equation kinds of things.
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… - Stephen Wolfram
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…
- Stephen Wolfram
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 … - Stephen Wolfram
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 …
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… - Stephen Wolfram
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…
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
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…
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… - Stephen Wolfram
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…
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today. - Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is widely regarded as the most important innovator in scientific and technical computing today.
...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… - Stephen Wolfram
...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…
It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego. - Stephen Wolfram
It has been proven that the universe is computationally equivalent to my ego.
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… - Stephen Wolfram
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…
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