Order Doesn't Come By Itself.

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.

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

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.

Smooth Shapes Are Very Rare In The Wild But Extremely Important In The Ivory Tower And The Factory.

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.