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.

There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.

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

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

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

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.

Asking the right questions is as important as answering them