Source: Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. Selecta Volume E
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Famous Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
“My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.”
“The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.”
Source: Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education
“Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.”
“Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics”
“The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market”
“There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable”
“Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere”
“I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable”
Source: The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
“A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.”
“Think not of what you see, but what it took to produce what you see.”
“For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.”
“If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.”
“Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.”