The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

To Operate In Misery Is To Disregard The Original Intention Of God

As an entrepreneur I am often asked how I kept my perseverance. Well persevere comes from the Latin roots purse as in "money " and sever as in "cut off." That's why I persevered.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago.

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia.

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses.

In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring—

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.