There was a lot of discussion when New Kind of Science came out. It was...long. Some people wondered if there was some tidbit hidden within the excessive girth

There was a lot of discussion when New Kind of Science came out. It was...long. Some people wondered if there was some tidbit hidden within the excessive girth to justify all the hype. Most people assumed that if Wolfram really did have a good idea, he would have put it in a more accessible format (like a 5 page paper). All that stuff about "groomed to be the next Einstein" is just kind of silly. Mathematica isn't too bad a thing to have on your resume.