Clouds Are Not Spheres, Mountains Are Not

The Theory Of Chaos And Theory Of Fractals Are Separate, But Have Very Strong Intersections. That Is One Part Of Chaos Theory Is Geometrically Expressed By Fractal Shapes.

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

There Is A Saying That Every Nice Piece Of Work Needs The Right Person In The Right Place At The Right Time.

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.

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.