Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

Benoit Mandelbrot

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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

Calista Flockhart
- People
- Time
- Business
Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

Madeline Kahn
- Carefree
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

Parker Posey
- People
- Heart
- Think
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

Mae West
- Up
- Tied
- Likely
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Florence Ellinwood Allen
- Freedom
- Whether
- Rests
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

Quentin Crisp
- People
- Up
- God