"Stephen Wolfram is a genius. But that’s not the most uncommon of his attributes. He is fiercely and fully independent, in every possible sense of the word. Wolfram does everything, literally everything, on his own terms."

--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness

"Stephen Wolfram has the most brilliant computational mind I have ever encountered. His endless curiosity, breadth of knowledge, and attention to detail, are truly astonishing. ‘Adventures’ is a wild ride down the Rabbit Hole."

--Nova Spivack, Chairman, Arch Mission Foundation

"This tour of Stephen Wolfram's mind is a jungle journey where ferocious new ideas jump out at you, then charm you. Read it in batches, because the idea density is high and pleasure long."

--Gregory Benford, author of Nebula award winning Timescape

"Stephen Wolfram is one of the remarkable scientists and technologists of our time, a physicist who went deep into computing, first as a means to an end creating computing tools, and then as a fundamental way to understand our universe. In Adventures of a Computational Explorer, he shares episodes of his journey, written in his characteristically direct and engaging style."

--Nathan Myhrvold, Founder and CEO of Intellectual Ventures