Pattern Quotes

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”

“The letters in a text are not chosen independently. For example, q is virtually always followed by u.”

“What is the pattern that connects all the living creatures?”

“It seems that the human mind is programmed to see pattern.”

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”

“The main message of this book is that we are all, at our core, patterns whose abstract properties remain the same no matter what the physical substrate.”

“The existence of these patterns challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.”

“History is a loop.”

“We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.”

“A relationship is a pattern of interaction.”

“I've always been interested in patterns, and how they emerge from simple rules.”

“You have to have a certain amount of faith. You have to believe that there's a pattern, that there's some structure, that it's not all just random.”

“Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.”

“Science is all about recognizing patterns.”

“Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules which are repeated without end.”

“The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.”

“A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought and action.”

“History has a way of repeating itself, but always with a twist.”

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.”

“It's the connections between things that are the most interesting.”