Engineering Is Too Important To Wait For

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.

I Conceived, Developed And Applied In Many Areas A New Geometry Of Nature, Which Finds Order In Chaotic Shapes And Processes. It Grew Without A Name Until 1975, When I Coined A New Word To Denote It, Fractal Geometry, From The Latin Word For Irregular And Broken Up, Fractus. Today You Might Say That, Until Fractal Geometry Became Organized, My Life Had Followed A Fractal Orbit.

There Are Very Complex Shapes Which Would Be The Same From Close By And Far Away.

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.

If You Have A Hammer, Use It Everywhere You Can, But I Do Not Claim That Everything Is Fractal.