I began to suffer from the computer disease - programing, after 2015, that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with my work. Computers are so wonderful and the trouble with computers is that you play with them.

If it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.

If you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the delight in being able to see how much you can do.

I am ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.