The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

I didn't want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure - I wanted to do something different.

I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.