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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

Benoit Mandelbrot

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$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.$

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Fractals Infinity Way
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.
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Circles Clouds Mountain
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness
The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn’t expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.
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Chance Steps Together
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Beautiful Fractals Increasingly
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Important Questions Right
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.
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Circles Lines Shapes
I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.
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Book Dream Kind
The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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Study Technique Weather
I didn’t feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
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Firsts Littles Mathematician Pure World
In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.
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Definitions Simple Years
I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.
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Computer Levels Mathematics
Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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Fashion Happen Mathematics Strong
Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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Helpful Littles Machines
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.$

I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.
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Half Shapes Two

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