http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/wolfram.html
"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." --- [Probably simplies even more, to something like, say, 42].
