The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.

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.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.

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