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“Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.”

World Sides Claims Wings Massive Butterfly Compensation Fractals Flapping

Author:Steve Aylett

“Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.”

Author:Ken Kesey

“The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.”

Has Beens Made Simple Mathematics Mathematical Equations Remarks Fractals Wittiest Convoluted

Book:Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories

Source: Once Upon A Number: The Hidden Mathematical Logic Of Stories

“It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as saying that the three great developments in twentith century engineering are the airplane, the computer, and the pop-top aluminum can. Chaos and fractals are not even twentieth century ideas: chaos was first observed by Poincare and fractals were familiar to Cantor a century ago, although neither man had the computer at his disposal to show the rest of the world the beauty he was seeing.”

“Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and the second law of thermodynamics, but it is a perfect fit for Tom Stoppard's astonishing 1993 play, which is as beautiful as it is brilliant. This is one Stoppard drama that you don't have to be Einstein to understand -- you can feel it as well as think it. (...) Breathtaking, exhilarating and deeply satisfying.”

“I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.”

Type Shapes Structure Repetition Flora Fractals Ferns

Author:Jack Dorsey

“If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.”

Ifs Use Claims Hammers Fractals

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.”

Hard Beautiful Damn Fractals

Author:Benoit Mandelbrot

“All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.”

Use Form Purpose Existence Fractals

Author:Guy Finley