Engineering Is Too Important To Wait For

My Fate Has Been That What I Undertook Was Fully Understood Only After The Fact.

Many Painters Had A Clear Idea Of What Fractals Are. Take A French Classic Painter Named Poussin. Now, He Painted Beautiful Landscapes, Completely Artificial Ones, Imaginary Landscapes. And How Did He Choose Them? Well, He Had The Balance Of Trees, Of Lawns, Of Houses In The Distance. He Had A Balance Of Small Objects, Big Objects, Big Trees In Front And His Balance Of Objects At Every Scale Is What Gives To Poussin A Special Feeling.

I Had Very, Very Little Training In Taking An Exam To Determine A Scientist's Life In France.

When People Ask Me What's My Field? I Say, On One Hand, A Fractalist. Perhaps The Only One, The Only Full-time One.

If You Look At A Shape Like A Straight Line, What's Remarkable Is That If You Look At A Straight Line From Close By, From Far Away, It Is The Same; It Is A Straight Line.