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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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Engineering is too important to wait for science.
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Engineering Important Waiting
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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Around Power Run Running Seek
Some mathematicians didn’t even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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Helpful Littles Machines
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
Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere
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Deny Everywhere Roughness
If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).
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Nature Past Science
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
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
Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.
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$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.$

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.
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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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$Benoit Mandelbrot Quote - Humanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.$

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
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
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
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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