“A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought and action.”— Ruth Benedict
“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.”— Douglas Hofstadter
“The letters in a text are not chosen independently. For example, q is virtually always followed by u.”— Claude Shannon
“Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.”— John Gray
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”— Benoit Mandelbrot
“We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.”— Michael Shermer
“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.”— Richard P. Feynman
“The existence of these patterns challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.”— Benoit Mandelbrot
“If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory.”— Robert M. Pirsig