It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

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

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

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

I don't seek power and do not run around

For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.