In the thousands of articles that made up the technical literature of chaos, few were cited more often than "Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow." For years, no single object would inspire more illustrations, even motion pictures, than the mysterious curve depicted at the end, the double spiral that became known as the Lorenz attractor.

p. 52; as cited in: Joshua Keating, in "Can Chaos theory teach us anything about Foreign Policy", at ideas.foreignpolicy.com, May 23rd 2013. - Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987