An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

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

I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable