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

Benoit Mandelbrot

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

Gary Hamel

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

Ha-Joon Chang

Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.

Jean Monnet

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

Jeremy Rifkin

Here we are 17 years later. Those agencies never did come through.

Jeremy Rifkin

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

Jeremy Rifkin

Let's start fresh with Russia on some real help and some real reform.

Jeffrey Sachs

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.

Joanna Scott

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Joseph Stiglitz

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Josiah Stamp

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

Dan Ariely

There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.

Daniel Ellsberg

Organizations may be better able to tame optimism than individuals are.

Daniel Kahneman

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

Daniel Kahneman

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Daniel Kahneman

Economies typically do not function well in hyperinflation. The real value of government debt might disappear, but the economy is likely to disappear with it.

Eugene Fama