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Benoit Mandelbrot

"I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a name until 1975, when I coined a new word to denote it, fractal geometry, from the Latin word for irregular and broken up, fractus. Today you might say that, until fractal geometry became organized, my life had followed a fractal orbit."

Source : "Encyclopedia of World Biography" edited by Thomson Gale, 1997.

Benoit Mandelbrot

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“All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.”
“What most people do is give space to people's quality and deal with their garbage. Actually, you should do it the other way around. Deal with who they are and give space to their garbage. Keep interacting with them as if they were God. And every time you get garbage from them, give space to the garbage and go back and interact with them as if they were God.”
“I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.”
“The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.”

Source : Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.125, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.”
“You know what, I had 11 great years with St. Louis. My gosh, those are the best years of my life. And I will never, ever forget that.”
“I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience...”
“Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.”

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