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

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

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.

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

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.

God bless us everyoneWe're a broken people living under loaded gunAnd it can't be outfoghtIt can't be outdoneIt can't out matchedIt can't be outrunNo

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

You don't get creative by staying in the same place.

I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

The art of love is God at work through you.