“A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought and action.”— Ruth Benedict
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back, I see a pattern.”— Benoit Mandelbrot
“The letters in a text are not chosen independently. For example, q is virtually always followed by u.”— Claude Shannon
“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
“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
“Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.”— John Gray
“History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.”— Sydney J. Harris
“We are pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.”— Michael Shermer