Benoit Mandelbrot

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.