273 Quotes About Patterns

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong.

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

The human brain has left and right brain symmetry with its own nature and can process information which initially appears to have no pattern or order. However, the brain has the ability to process visual information much more efficiently.

It becomes almost second nature to be on guard against the creative pattern of our own thought.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.