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Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.
— Poul Anderson
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.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
I don't seek power and do not run around.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.
— Benoit B. Mandelbrot
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
— Benoit Mandelbrot
If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Too often, an event's importance is not recognized until it is too late for proper recording.
— Benoit B. Mandelbrot
For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.
— Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.
— John Allen Paulos
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
Order doesn't come by itself.
— Benoit Mandelbrot
