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Engineering is too important to wait for science.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not – for the job that I should spend my life in.
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Country Jobs Professor Realized Satisfactory Way
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
In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.
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Country Numbers Problem School
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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Lines Looks Shapes Straight
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
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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Choices Discipline Intellectual
The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.
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Lines Pieces Self
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.$

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
Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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Arrogance Claims Firsts
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.$

Both chaos theory and fractal have had contacts in the past when they are both impossible to develop and in a certain sense not ready to be developed.
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Chaos Impossible Past
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Produce See Thinking Took
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
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Complex Far Away Shapes
Order doesn’t come by itself.
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Come Itself Order
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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Interest Life Thing Wanted
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

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