Why blame the book for giving the author credit, instead of the author for giving himself credit?

Admittedly the book did take on a life of its own, and he wrote it in Mathematica and built it with his own hand rolled CI/CD pipeline (FrameMaker + Wolfram Language diagrams + MIF export/import + automated build script + alpha/beta readers + DQA/SQA).

The Making of A New Kind of Science:

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2022/05/the-making-of-a-...

>At his request, I'd sent Steve Jobs a copy of the book—and I asked if he'd like to provide a quote. He responded that he thought I really shouldn't have quotes on the back of the book. "Isaac Newton didn't have quotes; nor should you."

A New Kind of Necronomicron

https://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2014/11/hcf-exclusive-intervie...