When The Weather Changes And Hurricanes Hit,

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

Regular Geometry, The Geometry Of Euclid, Is Concerned With Shapes Which Are Smooth, Except Perhaps For Corners And Lines, Special Lines Which Are Singularities, But Some Shapes In Nature Are So Complicated That They Are Equally Complicated At The Big Scale And Come Closer And Closer And They Don't Become Any Less Complicated.

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.

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

I Had Many Books And I Had Dreams Of All Kinds. Dreams In Which Were In A Certain Sense, How To Say, Easy To Make Because The Near Future Was Always Extremely Threatening.