Top 18 Quotes by Benoit Mandelbrot

I don't seek power and do not run around.

Order doesn't come by itself.

For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.

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.

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills.

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market.