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

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.

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

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

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

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