Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.”