Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes | Fat Tony's

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line."

- Benoit Mandelbrot

"For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are."

- Benoit Mandelbrot

"A man is known by his heroes."

- Benoit Mandelbrot

"For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself."

- Benoit Mandelbrot

"My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern."

- Benoit Mandelbrot

"But the financial industry is supremely pragmatic. While it may genuflect to the old icons, it invests its research dollars in the search for newer, better gods."

- Benoit Mandelbrot

"Regardless, one cannot help but marvel that the movement of security prices, the motion of molecules, and the diffusion of heat could all be of the same mathematical species. As will be seen, it is one of many such strange liaisons in nature."

- Benoit Mandelbrot

"Time does not run in a straight line, like the markings on a wooden ruler. It stretches and shrinks, as if the ruler were made of balloon rubber. This is true in daily life: We perk up during high drama, nod off when bored. Markets do the same."

- Benoit Mandelbrot