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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Produce See Thinking Took
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory
Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Engineering May Science
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.$

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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Claims Hammers Use
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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Memories News Pieces Somewhere
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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Clouds Looks Smooth
Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Come Itself Order
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.$

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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Beautiful Fractals Increasingly
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
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
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
There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
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Needs Nice Pieces
One 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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Luck Persistence Reward
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 had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist’s life in France.
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France Littles Training
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

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