I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

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.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Order doesn't come by itself.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.

Unfortunately the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendship - it is friendship plus mutual interest, and it is bipartisan.

I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The only true test of loyalty is fidelity in the face of ruin and despair.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

I'm Australian, so I love the stores near Crowne Plaza Melbourne, on the banks of the Yarra River.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

Mind what people do not only what they say for deeds will betray a lie.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'

Most of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout - a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.

I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.

All a poet can do today is warn.

When you have over 500 million dollars in questionable contributions, shouldn't that start to alert people?

Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.

I don't think I could last in anything for 10 years doing a character.

There is nothing of greater importance to the well-being of society at large - of man as well as woman - than the true proper position of woman.