Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ImportantWildRareTowerShapes

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

Joe Rogan

FunnyMeLaughTalkingMoviesNever

I do love to gamble; I hate to admit it.

Jennifer Coolidge

LoveHateAdmitGamble

Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.

John David Washington

LifeHateMoviesFantasyHumanReal

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

John F. Kennedy

LifeCrazyEnoughBe PreparedWant

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

Matthew Desmond

YouOvercomeSeeThenAnother

One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

Jeffrey Brown

GoodThinkRealityYouAppearance

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

LifeImaginationThreeMoreRealUp

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

Simone Biles

MyselfKeepSurprisingJustGuess

That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to her character and loved the story. So I really think as long as you have a good story that relates to a lot of people, it doesn't matter what ethnicity it is.

Ming-Na Wen

GoodCharacterPeopleAmazingThink

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

Luc Montagnier

CarI AmPeopleInformationYoung

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

Jason Kidd

BusinessBasketballWayAlwaysGets

In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.

Demi Lovato

StartNegativeFeelingsThingsAway

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