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.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

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.

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

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