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he was going out on a date that evening—and he hadn’t been on a date for a long time. He explained that he’d just met the woman he was seeing a few days earlier, and was very nervous about his date. The Steve Jobs—so confident as a businessman and technologist—had melted away, and he was asking me—hardly a noted known authority on such things—about his date.

rofl @ Steve Jobs asking Stephen Wolfram about dating.




"...and that was when I realised women were basically cellular automata - I had discovered A New Kind Of Dating."


Thanks for a much needed laugh amongst all these tributes.


"Well, first you have your assistant assign her a serial number..."


And then, if your assistant gets anywhere with the date, file a lawsuit to prevent them from ever mentioning it in public.




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