Stephen Wolfram

Quotes

• “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.”

• “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.”

• “[In] Ancient Babylon... they were trying to predict three kinds of things.... where the planets would be, what the weather would be like, and who would win or lose a certain battle; and they had no idea which of these things would be more predictable than the other.”

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

Books by Stephen Wolfram in order

Books by Stephen Wolfram in the order they were published, from Mathematica (1988) to An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Langauge (2017).

1. 1MathematicaMathematica1988
2. 2Mathematica Reference GuideMathematica Reference Guide1992
3. 3Cellular Automata and ComplexityCellular Automata and Complexity1994
4. 4Mathematica 3.0 Standard Add-on PackagesMathematica 3.0 Standard Add-on Packages1996
5. 5The MATHEMATICA ® Book, Version 3The MATHEMATICA ® Book, Version 31996
6. 6The Mathematica BookThe Mathematica Book1996
7. 7A New Kind of ScienceA New Kind of Science2002
8. 8Idea MakersIdea Makers2016
9. 9An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram LangaugeAn Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Langauge2017