It was astonishing when at one point, I got the idea of how to make artifical clouds with a collaborator, we had pictures made which were theoretically completely artificial pictures based upon that one very simple idea. And this picture everybody views as being clouds.
Benoit MandelbrotHumanity has known for a long time what fractals are. It is a very strange situation in which an idea which each time I look at all documents have deeper and deeper roots, never (how to say it), jelled.
Benoit MandelbrotWhen people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
Benoit MandelbrotThere is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.
Benoit Mandelbrot