I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

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 theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.

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

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