113 Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

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

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

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere