My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

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.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable

Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

Engineering is too important to wait for science.