Order Doesn't Come By Itself.

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.

For Much Of My Life There Was No Place Where The Things I Wanted To Investigate Were Of Interest To Anyone.

If You Look At Coastlines, If You Look At That Them From Far Away, From An Airplane, Well, You Don't See Details, You See A Certain Complication. When You Come Closer, The Complication Becomes More Local, But Again Continues. And Come Closer And Closer And Closer, The Coastline Becomes Longer And Longer And Longer Because It Has More Detail Entering In.

Smooth Shapes Are Very Rare In The Wild But Extremely Important In The Ivory Tower And The Factory.

Engineering Is Too Important To Wait For Science.