A Fractal Is A Way Of Seeing

The Straight Line Has A Property Of Self-similarity. Each Piece Of The Straight Line Is The Same As The Whole Line When Used To A Big Or Small Extent.

When People Ask Me What's My Field? I Say, On One Hand, A Fractalist. Perhaps The Only One, The Only Full-time One.

Engineering Is Too Important To Wait For Science.

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.

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.