French - Mathematician | November 20, 1924 - October 14, 2010
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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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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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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
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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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Order doesn't come by itself.
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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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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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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 was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.
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