“A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.” Quote by Babatunde Adebimpe
“Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.” ThinkingMightTurnsBand Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.” BigsLinesSpecialShapesConcernedCornersComplicatedScalesSmoothGeometrySingularityEuclid Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.” Would BeShapesComplexesFar Away Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.” IfsLooksLinesShapesRemarkableFar AwayStraight Lines Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“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.” SelfWholeBigsUsedLinesPiecesPropertySimilarityStraight Lines Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“Self-similarity is a dull subject because you are used to very familiar shapes. But that is not the case. Now many shapes which are self-similar again, the same seen from close by and far away, and which are far from being straight or plane or solid.” SelfUsedCasesSubjectsShapesFamiliarPlanesDullFar AwaySimilarity Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.” IfsWellsLooksCertainDetailsLocalsAirplaneFar AwayEnteringComplicationCoastline Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.” MindGivenPrayerCreationExerciseSeriesIntentionWork OutOperationsFacultyLinksMakersContinuingLenten Author:E. Stanley Jones
“I went to the computer and tried to experiment. I introduced a very high level of experiment in very pure mathematics.” LevelsPureComputerMathematicsExperimentsHigh Level Author:Benoit Mandelbrot