Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes & Sayings

18 most famous Benoit Mandelbrot quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American mathematician who passed away on 14 October, 2010.

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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.”

“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.”

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

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

“When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.”

“Order doesn't come by itself.”

“The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.”

“Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.”

“There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.”

“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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