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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.
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Pleasure Realizing Years
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable
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Academia Found Laboratory
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
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
My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.
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Choices Complicated People
Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.
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Produce See Thinking Took
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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Miracle Simple Spring
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
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.$

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
Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Asking Important Questions Right
$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.$

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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Fractal Humanity Ideas Long Roots
It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
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Clouds Simple Views
I didn’t want to become a pure mathematician, as a matter of fact, my uncle was one, so I knew what the pure mathematician was and I did not want to be a pure – I wanted to do something different.
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Different Mathematician Uncles Want
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
A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.
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Complexity Formulas Simple
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness

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