"There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time."

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Source : "A Theory of Roughness". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. December 20, 2004.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#Nice Quotes #Needs Quotes #Pieces Quotes

“I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.”
“I'm certainly not a prude.”
“Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does.”
“When you become a top player, you think that nothing else and nobody else matters. You can tell everybody on earth, 'Listen, I'm playing tennis, I don't have time for you. I'm in the semifinals of the U.S. Open, screw everybody and everything else.'”
“I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.”
“I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.”
“I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.”
“Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.”

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