Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

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.

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

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

I don't seek power and do not run around

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

Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.