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

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere

When the weather changes and hurricanes hit, nobody believes that the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed. It's the same stock market with the same mechanisms and the same people.

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

Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.