Benoit Mandelbrot Quotes

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'

The best people in this industry [technology] are the people who are trying to solve big problems.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

We do not want to just define issues; we want to help to create solutions

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

I would say it would be worth it if, in fact, it would - if you could demonstrate that that would be the case and that the results and ramifications around the world wouldn't lead to more problems and more people dying. It's a very complex issue, and that's why I think we need to decide it.

I want people to hear musicians like Joe Cuba. He has done things to whole masses of Puerto Rican people. The music is fantastic and important.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's important and we need to look at it.

We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

It's important to be honest with and respectful of each other and deal with issues as they arrive, as opposed to letting them simmer.

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

In The 3rd Alternative, Stephen Covey urges us to chart a course beyond the suboptimal solutions to all our crises - beyond left and right, and beyond the many false choices in front of us. The 3rdAlternative is a wise and welcome echo of Einstein's warning that the problems we're facing today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

In a personalized world, important but complex or unpleasant issues are less likely to come to our attention at all.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.

It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.