Order doesn't come by itself.

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

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

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.