A Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Benoit Mandelbrot

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Extremely Factory Important Ivory Ivory Tower Rare Shapes Smooth Tower Very Wild

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Benoit Mandelbrot
French - Mathematician
November 20, 1924 - October 14, 2010

I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I speak to people, so I must desert that ivory tower. To do this, I am a journalist - a photojournalist. But I am always torn between the attitude of the journalist, who is a recorder of facts, and the artist, who is often necessarily at odds with the facts. My principle concern is for honesty, above all honesty with myself.

W. Eugene Smith

I don't see myself in an ivory tower.

Jeff Buckley

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

Benoit Mandelbrot

That's a big part of being a designer now: going out, having dinners, meeting people. Being in an ivory tower, you can feel very removed.

Joseph Altuzarra

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

Walter Darby Bannard

I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people.

Maria Teresa Horta

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

Andrew Garfield

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

Tabitha King

He had that rare weird electricity about him - that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.