Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful. That's Fractals.

Regular Geometry, The Geometry Of Euclid, Is Concerned With Shapes Which Are Smooth, Except Perhaps For Corners And Lines, Special Lines Which Are Singularities, But Some Shapes In Nature Are So Complicated That They Are Equally Complicated At The Big Scale And Come Closer And Closer And They Don't Become Any Less Complicated.

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.

The Techniques I Developed For Studying Turbulence, Like Weather, Also Apply To The Stock Market

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.

The Beauty Of What I Happened By Extraordinary Chance To Put Together Is That Nobody Would Have Believed That This Is Possible, And Certainly I Didn't Expect That It Was Possible. I Just Moved From Step To Step To Step.