Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes


"Order doesn't come by itself."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Order)

"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
(Related: Laws, Physics, Rules, Weather)

"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Popular, Today, Years)

"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Physics)

"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Time, Work, Needs, Right, Saying)

"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Will)

"The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Weather)

"Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Arrogance, First, Present)

"Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Will)

"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."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Time, Now, Pleasure, Years)

"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."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Computer, Memory, News)

"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Life, Interest)

"I don't seek power and do not run around."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Power)

"I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
"My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
(Related: Fact, Fate)

"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
(Related: Clouds)