Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
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Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time.Benoit Mandelbrot
An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.
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One of my conjectures was solved in six months, a second in five years, a third in 10. But the basic conjecture remains-the Mandelbrot Set.
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The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.
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I don't seek power and do not run around.
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When the weather changes, nobody believes the laws of physics have changed. Similarly, I don't believe that when the stock market goes into terrible gyrations its rules have changed.
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