Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

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.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: mathematician
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: November 20, 1924 - October 14, 2010

Topics

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First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

John Carpenter

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The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

John Ensign

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For me, writing essays is very much about processing ideas and offering them up to the reader so that they are fully cooked.

Meghan Daum

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Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

Jeanne Moreau

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I'm really a cool, mellow guy. I'm not as crazy as everybody thinks.

Tommy Lee

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Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.

Tom Stoppard

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I've always been cast in authority roles; I think because I have that presence... Comedically, I can play against that pretty well. I enjoy playing that arrogant ignorance. That's one of my favorite games to play in comedy.

Rob Riggle

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London style is individual.

Mary Quant

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When you realize the real pleasure in food comes in the first couple bites, and it diminishes thereafter, that's a kind of reminder to focus on the experience, enjoy those first bites, and as you get into the 20th bite, you're talking calories and not pleasure.

Michael Pollan

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I love food, and I love drawing it, particularly.

Mini Grey

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When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can't budge you from believing God, he won't know what to do with you anymore.

Joyce Meyer

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When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it; you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

Douglas Booth

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