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Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So their ambition and high expectations were transferred to me.

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Father was bold, and Mother was cautious. They never shouted at each other but argued constantly about strategy, and they taught me very early that before taking big risks, one must carefully figure the odds.

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When I first began studying prices, it wasn’t a topic that mathematicians were working on. Purely by accident, I saw a set of data on price changes presented in a lecture and realized they behaved similarly to the geometric models I was already studying.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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