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

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

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

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

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

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

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

In the world of lovers, there is no fear.

Everyone or almost all eventually evade reality and we invent what we need.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

Chronic pain or other challenges are invitations; gifts that challenge us to learn how to manage the mind.

Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.