"When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years."

-- Heinz-Otto Peitgen

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“That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]”
“Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are few things more bizarre than watching people advocate that another country be bombed even while acknowledging that it will achieve no good outcomes other than safeguarding the 'credibility' of those doing the bombing. Relatedly, it's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.”

Source : "Obama, Congress and Syria" by Glenn Greenwald, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2013.
“You would have a huge statelessness problem if you don't consider a child born abroad a U.S. citizen.”
“Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.”
“When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.”
“What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.”
“I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.”

Source : "Tucker" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. May 29, 2007.

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