There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
From Benoit Mandelbrot
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
Order doesn't come by itself.
A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.
Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
I don't seek power and do not run around.
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.
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