I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

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

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

Order doesn't come by itself.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.