Benoit Mandelbrot

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

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#any #arrogance #been #claim #extraordinary

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#needs #nice #person #piece #place

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. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#closer #cloud #clouds #come #get

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#color #each #physics #pitch #think

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. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#always #arrives #big #buffer #computer

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#i #interest #investigate #life #much

I don't seek power and do not run around. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#i #power #run #seek

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#because #found #i #industrial #laboratory

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#enough #feel #had #largely #last

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#been #fact #fate #fully #i