I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.

Order doesn't come by itself.

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

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

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