Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes
Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. It's helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.
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Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.
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I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
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I think she understates in favour of her own sex the inequality which she admits to exist between the male and female intellect.
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Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'
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Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.
