Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills