Quotes About Pattern

Music is really, really mathematical.

In short, with Sarri football is maths.

There is clearly something right about 7, because other numbers fail to resonate with us in quite the same way.

It's important to get match rhythm.

Once the season starts you start to get into a rhythm.

I like routine.

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.

I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.

I'm someone who likes routine.

I believe in routine.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

I'm in a BMW rut. My last three cars have been BMW 3-Series.

I really try to do and eat the same thing every day when I'm home and in my routine.

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

T]he "Law Of Frequency Of Error". . . reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob . . . the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand . . . an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.13

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines

the dynamical pattern characterizing sociopolitical instability in historical societies (see, for example Figure 1.1) is more complex than just a sequence of secular integrative (relatively stable) and disintegrative (relatively unstable) phases. The jagged, "saw-toothed" nature of the trajectory suggests that there is another, shorter cycle superimposed on the longer multi-century oscillations.

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.

Life is information, shaped by natural selection. Carbon's just fashion, nucleic acids mere optional accessories. Electrons can do all that stuff, if they're coded the right way. It's all just pattern.

It's the pattern that matters, you see. Not the choice of building materials. Life is information, shaped by natural selection. Carbon's just fashion, nucleic acids mere optional accessories. Electrons can do all that stuff, if they're coded the right way. It's all just pattern.

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

The combination of random branching and orderly underlying lattice creates the exquisite complexity of the snowflake, poised on the brink of chaos and minutely sensitive to tiny variations in the temperature and humidity of the air.