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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 universes.

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

Stephen Wolfram

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 universe, but at the computational universe.

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It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well, I think we found its secret. It's just sampling what's out there in the computational universe.

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Could it be that some place out there in the computational universe, we might find our physical universe?

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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

Stephen Wolfram

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Born: August 29, 1959 (age 65)

Bio: Stephen Wolfram is a British scientist known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and in theoretical physics. He is the author of the book A New Kind of Science. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Known for:

A New Kind of Science (2002)
The MATHEMATICA ® Book, Version 3 (1996)
Cellular automata and complexity (1994)

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