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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Where do I really belong? I avoid saying everywhere - which switches all too easily to nowhere. Instead, when pressed, I call myself a fractalist.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Order doesn't come by itself.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: '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.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'An exquisitely complex shape now known as the Mandlebrot set has been called the most complex object in mathematics.'

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

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: '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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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'I don't seek power and do not run around.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: 'My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.'

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Benoit Mandelbrot: '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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Jean Giraudoux: 'As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.'

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Jean Giraudoux: 'A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.'

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