Stephen Wolfram Quotes

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Society doesn't need newspapers. What we need is journalism... When we shift our attention from ‘save newspapers’ to ‘save society’, the imperative changes from ‘preserve the current institutions’ to ‘do whatever works.’ And what works today isn’t the same as what used to work.

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.

[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter

Today anything can be done - we have the techniques

We do today what they won't, so tomorrow we accomplish what they can't.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work.

You can't be a sort of pioneer.

I believe that having an open mind is one of the most important qualities we can possess. Once our minds close, we stop evolving.

WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?

It is clearly important for all leadership candidates to be open and transparent about their tax affairs. I was very happy to publish mine today, and hope others will follow suit.

It was something new that was happening everywhere. You couldn't miss it. If you needed to go to the grocery you would go to the predecessors of the big supermarkets of today.

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.