If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
BENOIT MANDELBROTOne couldn’t even measure roughness. So, by luck, and by reward for persistence, I did found the theory of roughness, which certainly I didn’t expect and expecting to found one would have been pure madness.
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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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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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Pictures were completely eliminated from mathematics; in particular when I was young this happened in a very strong fashion.
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A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales…
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Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.
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If you look at a shape like a straight line, what’s remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.
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Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
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Unfortunately, the world has not been designed for the convenience of mathematicians.
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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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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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