Theodore Gray

Theodore W. "Theo" Gray (born November 18, 1964) is a co-founder of Wolfram Research, prominent science author, and co-founder of app developer Touch Press.

Quotes

• And so it is that we come to the end of our journey through the periodic table not with a bang, but with a committee.
  • The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe p. 233

• The periodic table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as light, love, logic, and time, that are not in the periodic table. But you can't drop any of those things on your foot.
  • The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe p. 5

• OK, maybe being an international pop star is more exciting than the life of an element collector, but it has its moments.
  • The Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe p. 234

• Adults only look like they know what they're doing. In fact, they're all making it up as they go along, especially when giving advice.
  • As quoted in Getting Personal: Theodore Gray

• Lawyers exist to tell you everything that could possibly go wrong with anything you want to do. The correct way to interact with them is to say thank you very much, and then do it anyway. Actually no one told me that; I had to figure it out myself.
  • As quoted in Getting Personal: Theodore Gray