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

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

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