"A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales."

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Source : The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 91, No. 9, (p. 594), November 1984.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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“I love the feeling of putting my feet back on the sand after I've been out in the ocean for a while. I love that. I guess the adrenaline calms down when the sense of balance returns in a really grounded way.”
“And once you cross over into that world, no matter how strong you are, you have to pay the price.”
“I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)”
“Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.”
“Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.”
“Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success.”

Source : FaceBook post by Brandon Steiner from Jun 20, 2016
“Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.”
“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.”

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