“My futurist, visionary friend, Stephen Wolfram, is the creator of the symbolic computation program Mathematica and its programming language, Wolfram Language, as well as the knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. He is also the author of A New Kind of Science.” – James Ferrari
“I’ve been interested in how we define the set of things that we want to do, and how we think about the kinds of abstractions that it’s worthwhile to define. In human language, for example, we come up with particular kinds of abstractions that are based on things that are common in our world. It’s somewhat circular, because the abstractions that we come up with then define what we choose to build in our world, which then allows us to go on and create more levels of abstraction. This phenomenon of taking a set of things you want to do, building abstractions from them, and then going to more levels beyond that is something that plays out in the design of computational languages.”
