“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.”
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) Polish-born, French and American mathematician
New Scientist interview (2004)
Alan Rusbridger "I've seen the future and it's mutual." British Journalism Review, Vol 20 (3), 2009. p. 19-26; Partly cited in: Santo da Cunha, Rodrigo do Espírito, and Rodrigo Martins Aragão. "Clicar, arrastar, girar: o conceito de interatividade em revistas para iPad."
2000s
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.”
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) Polish-born, French and American mathematician
New Scientist interview (2004)
Leslie Lamport (1941) American computer scientist
Sometimes it would lead back to a previous idea of mine, very often it would lead to something somebody else had done. But the Bakery algorithm just seemed to come out of thin air to me. There was nothing like it that preceded it, so perhaps that's why I'm proudest of it.
As quoted in [Dahlia Malkhi, Concurrency: The Works of Leslie Lamport, https://books.google.com/books?id=z_m2DwAAQBAJ, 16 September 2019, Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 978-1-4503-7273-2, 137]
“When I look back to a recent painting, I can hardly bear th suffering in it.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Sajid Javid (1969) British politician
'Wrong to ignore' ethnicity of grooming gangs - Javid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46684638, BBC News, 26 December 2018 <br class="br">2018
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Trump responding to a question about whether he had a relationship with Vladimir Putin during an interview with MSNBC's Thomas Roberts while visiting Moscow for the Miss Universe competition http://www.msnbc.com/thomas-roberts/watch/trump-discusses-putin-in-2013-734124099973 (November 2013) <br class="br">2010s, 2013
“It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car.
"Most things are”
Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride
Source: Along for the Ride
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist
1960's, I never thought of it as much of an ability,' (1968)
“Guardian is the most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth.”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/07/tesla-chief-elon-musk-smokes-marijuana-on-live-web-show e-mail to Guardian
John Seigenthaler (1927–2014) American journalist, writer, and political figure
Reported in his Tennessean's obituary; quoted in "John Seigenthaler dies at 86" http://www.poynter.org/2014/john-seigenthaler-dies-at-86/258597/ by Andrew Beaujon, poynter.org (11 July 2014)
