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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.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Benoit Mandelbrot
Age: 85 †
Born: 1924
Born: November 20
Died: 2010
Died: October 14
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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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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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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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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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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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