I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

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

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.

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

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