Stephen Wolfram, on the legacy of seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey when he was eight years old:
It's hard for me to believe it's been 50 years since I first saw 2001. Not all of 2001 has come true (yet). But for me what was important was that it presented a vision of what might be possible-and an idea of how different the future might be. It helped me set the course of my life to try to define in whatever ways I can what the future will be. And not just waiting for aliens to deliver monoliths, but trying to build some "alien artifacts" myself.
[Via Sentiers No. 37]