For Most Of My Life,

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

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.

Humanity Has Known For A Long Time What Fractals Are. It Is A Very Strange Situation In Which An Idea Which Each Time I Look At All Documents Have Deeper And Deeper Roots, Never (how To Say It), Jelled.

Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful. That's Fractals.

When The Weather Changes And Hurricanes Hit, Nobody Believes That The Laws Of Physics Have Changed. Similarly, I Don't Believe That When The Stock Market Goes Into Terrible Gyrations Its Rules Have Changed. It's The Same Stock Market With The Same Mechanisms And The Same People.