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.

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.

I am afraid of everybody else's secrets

I have discovered that you will achieve nothing if you pursue everything. Be specific and stay focused.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere - Carl Sagan

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy.

Constant repetition dulls receptivity.