Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot
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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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“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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“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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“I don't seek power and do not run around.”
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“I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.”
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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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“My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.”
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“Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.”
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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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