Now That I Near 80,

It Was A Very Big Gamble. I Lost My Job In France, I Received A Job In Which Was Extremely Uncertain, How Long Would Ibm Be Interested In Research, But The Gamble Was Taken And Very Shortly Afterwards, I Had This Extraordinary Fortune Of Stopping At Harvard To Do A Lecture And Learning About The Price Variation In Just The Right Way.

It Was Astonishing When At One Point, I Got The Idea Of How To Make Artifical Clouds With A Collaborator, We Had Pictures Made Which Were Theoretically Completely Artificial Pictures Based Upon That One Very Simple Idea. And This Picture Everybody Views As Being Clouds.

Think Not Of What You See, But What It Took To Produce What You See.

The Theory Of Probability Is The Only Mathematical Tool Available To Help Map The Unknown And The Uncontrollable. It Is Fortunate That This Tool, While Tricky, Is Extraordinarily Powerful And Convenient.

If You Assume Continuity, You Can Open The Well-stocked Mathematical Toolkit Of Continuous Functions And Differential Equations, The Saws And Hammers Of Engineering And Physics For The Past Two Centuries (and The Foreseeable Future).