Comment by SanjayMehta
19 days ago
That's his style. It's not just his blog style, it's the same in his book.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200207/stephen_wolframs_unfor...
19 days ago
That's his style. It's not just his blog style, it's the same in his book.
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200207/stephen_wolframs_unfor...
> My thoughts keep running to two other geniuses: Isaac Newton (Wolfram’s predecessor in revolutionizing science) and Donald Knuth (another contemporary computer scientist). ... But both were also gracious and modest, something that Wolfram is not.
Uhm, Knuth -- yes, but Newton was pretty arrogant, vindictive, obsessive about his reputation, and unable to tolerate criticism. Some even claim he stole ideas, like the inverse-square law.