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I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.
Benoit Mandelbrot



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Author Profession: Mathematician
Nationality: French
Born: November 20, 1924
Died: October 14, 2010

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Order doesn't come by itself.
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Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.
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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.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
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Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.
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Words
Academia, Because, Found, Industrial, Laboratory, Unsuitable
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Because, Found, Industrial, Laboratory
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