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"I've got to ask you," I say. "How long do you envision this rule of the
universe to be?" 
"I'm guessing it's really very short." 
"Like how long?" 
"I don't know. In Mathematica, for example, perhaps three, four lines of
code." 
"Four lines of code?" 
"That's what I'm guessing. I mean, I don't really know, but I think
there's no obvious evidence that it's any longer than that. Now, in a
sense, it will be short if Mathematica was a well-designed language. It
will be longer if it doesn't happen to be as well-designed, in the sense
that that doesn't happen to be the way the universe works. But we're not
looking at 25,000 lines of code or something. We're looking at a handful
of lines of code." 
"So it's not like Windows?" 
"No." Wolfram laughs. "It's not like Windows. It's going to be something
small, I think. I've certainly wondered. You ask about the theological
questions and things. I think there will be a time when one will sort of
hold those lines of code in one's hand, and that is the universe. And
what does this mean? You know, how do we then feel about things, if this
whole thing is just five lines of code or something? And in a sense, that
is a very unsatisfying conclusion, that sort of everything that's going
on, everything out there, is all just this five lines of code we're
running." 

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[Probably simplies even more, to something like, say, 42].

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