Stephen Wolfram

“I have a general principle: if you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.”

“There's a meta-question: why are we interested in the questions that we're interested in?”

“Once one has a computer that can do a certain thing, it’s only a matter of time before it will be used to do that thing.”

“In the end, all we can do is to just run the experiment and see what happens.”

“It's one of the great things about being a scientist: you're always learning.”

“Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. Anything that is trivial is presented in only one way.”

“Automation is the future. And it’s not just for the factory floor anymore.”

“The quest for the ultimate foundations of computation is a quest for the ultimate foundations of everything.”

“The history of science is sodden with failed reformers.”

“It is a core property of intelligence that it is computational.”

“The future of programming is not about writing code. It's about describing what you want to do.”

“The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.”

“The fundamental question is, what is the nature of the universe?”

“I’ve come to believe that the whole world is basically computational.”

“Every great discovery in science has come from a new way of thinking.”

“There's this notion of computational irreducibility. It's the idea that some things are just complex, and you can't short-circuit them.”

“The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.”