Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

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• A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity. Bottomless
• 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… Arrives
• 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… Billows
• I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a… Applied
• Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. Chapter
• The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. Chaos
• Engineering is too important to wait for science. Engineering
• Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see. Inspirational
• Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce. Among
• For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself. Baffled
• If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal. Claim
• Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals. Beautiful
• Order doesn't come by itself. Funny
• A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales. All
• I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of… All
• If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics… Assume
• A fractal is a way of seeing infinity. Fractal
• An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something. Amount
• There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time. Every Nice
• For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. Anyone

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