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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.

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Every Needs Nice Person Piece Place Right Right Person Right Place Right Time Saying Time Work

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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.

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Believe Believes Changed Changes Goes Laws Market Nobody Physics Rules Similarly Stock Stock Market Terrible Weather

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

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Branch Color Each Physics Pitch Think Topic

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

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Also Apply Developed Like Market Stock Stock Market Studying Techniques Turbulence Weather

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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Anyone Interest Investigate Life Much My Life Place Things Wanted Were Where

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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.

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Beginning Enough Feel Had Largely Last Learned Lives Mathematicians Most Own Remained Rest Way Were

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

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: After Been Fact Fate Fully Only Understood

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

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Deny Everywhere Least Nobody Some Will

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

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Acceptable Always Find Hammer Hit Joke Nails Perfectly Will Your

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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.

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Closer Cloud Clouds Come Get Like Look Made Scale Smaller Smooth Something You

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Mathematician

Born: November 20th, 1924

Died: October 14th, 2010

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