And here is Wolfram, a burned out prodigy busy managing a commercial company and doing classic Cargo Cult science part time with little respect from peers and with a seminal work called New "Kind" Of Science. He should be thankful that he actually met living and breathing Feynman and even had opportunity to work with him (although Feynman never seem to have mentioned Wolfram anywhere). Instead he goes on to put quotes likes these whose only purpose seems to show how limited Feynman was and how Wolfram didn't had those limitations:
What mattered to him was the process of finding it. And he was often quite competitive about it.
Really Wolfram? Where is your Nobel prize? Oh, I know you are waiting for the one on new "kind" of science.
Some scientists (myself probably included) are driven by the ambition to build grand intellectual edifices. I think Feynman—at least in the years I knew him—was much more driven by the pure pleasure of actually doing the science.
No Mr. Wolfram. You are driven by egoistic desire to leave your name everywhere and people worshiping you for your intellect on their knees.
And he was a great calculator. All around perhaps the best human calculator there's ever been.
Yeah, he calculated some of the greatest mysteries in known physics.
The ego of Wolfram dribbles all over:
And one day he calls me and says: "OK, Wolfram, I can't crack it. I think you're onto something." Which was very encouraging.
And it was nice of him to write such nice things about me.