Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.

When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.

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

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.