I’ve come around on Stephen Wolfram. His puffery essentially hurts nobody besides perhaps those close to him, it’s easy to tune out, while his ambition has produced this really wonderful piece of software.
Yes that adage is true, but I don’t think that’s relevant in this context, since that’s not the point I was trying to make.
I was offering a specific counter example to your observation that he was possibly hurting those closest to him.
> His puffery essentially hurts nobody besides perhaps those close to him
I think if he was genuinely hurting the people closest to him, like his family through his brash personality, they wouldn’t want to collaborate with him on long, extended projects. Especially considering how old and intelligent his son is.
