Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

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

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

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• 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.

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• I don’t seek power and do not run around.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• Order doesn’t come by itself.

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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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Benoit Mandelbrot (18)

Birth:	20th November, 1924
Death:	14th October, 2010
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Mathematician

About

Benoît B. Mandelbrot was a Polish-born, French and American mathematician, noted for developing a "theory of roughness" in nature and the field of fractal geometry to help prove it, which included coining the word "fractal". He later discovered the Mandelbrot set of intricate, never-ending fractal shapes, named in his honor.

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