Stephen Wolfram: On Starting a Long-Term Company

Re:Stephen Wolfram: On Starting a Long-Term Company by machine on Friday November 16, 2007 @02:20AM (#80551)

"I remember, I'd just had my twentieth birthday. I'd just gotten my Ph.D. And it looked like my plan to "be a physicist" was going just great."

I had to stop reading there as I became ill. (23 year old that hasn't passed quals)

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Re:Stephen Wolfram: On Starting a Long-Term Company by carpal on Friday November 16, 2007 @10:05AM (#80655)

Maybe it was faster for truly smart people to get a Ph.D. back in the day. My father had his Ph.D. in computer science by the time he was 21. I tried to take one masters-level course when I was 22 and they laughed at me.

I think it is the education systems' fault, rather than your own.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram: On Starting a Long-Term Company by gruseom on Saturday November 17, 2007 @02:34AM (#80906)

I vividly remember feeling this way too (not about Wolfram, but about similar things) when I was 23. In my experience, a benefit of getting older has been that this sort of concern gradually fades. Eventually, you affectionately wonder how you ever could have let it matter to you so much.

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Re:Stephen Wolfram: On Starting a Long-Term Company by jgamman on Friday November 16, 2007 @04:43AM (#80576)

i guess you wouldn't like to hear that his first quantum physics publication was as a teenager? i read somewhere that when Feynman first met SW, he said he was amazing.

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