An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
BENOIT MANDELBROTThe 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.
More Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
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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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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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A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.
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Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That’s fractals.
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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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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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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics
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I don’t seek power and do not run around
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set … is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as ‘chaos’.
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The theory of chaos and theory of fractals are separate, but have very strong intersections. That is one part of chaos theory is geometrically expressed by fractal shapes.
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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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