Chaos Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier…

— Robert L. Devaney

“mandelbrot changed the way ibm's engineers thought about the cause of noise. bursts of errors had always sent the engineers looking for a man…

— James Gleick

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

— John Allen Paulos

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

— Poul Anderson

When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last…

— Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking in imagination,…

— Freeman Dyson

The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“You were totally unprepared for her”

— Richelle Mead

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

— Euripides

When you're dealing in situations that are uncontrollable and combustible, you try to stabilize the situation as quickly as you can and then work…

— Chuck Hagel

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.

— Rudy Rucker