I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

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

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics