Quotes About Pattern

mandelbrot changed the way ibm's engineers thought about the cause of noise. bursts of errors had always sent the engineers looking for a man sticking a screwdriver somewhere.

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.

Here was one coin with two sides. Here was order, with randomness emerging, and then one step further away was randomness with its own underlying order.

Pattern, as he saw it, equals redundancy. In ordinary language, redundancy serves as an aid to understanding. In cryptanalysis, that same redundancy is the Achilles' heel.

Chaos has become not just theory but also method, not just a canon of beliefs but also a way of doing science.

A chaotic system could be stable if its particular brand of irregularity persisted in the face of small disturbances.

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

There's a pattern in Bush 43's presidency of being attracted to the big and the bold, and my whole reading of him is that he was instinctively uncomfortable with what you might call a modulated foreign policy - a foreign policy of adjustment, of degree.

One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering a colleague's success, reputation, or relationships.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

What you do consistently shapes your life.

We do not recognize that we are addicted to some negative psychological habit, some terribly self-destructive patterns of thinking...

Leopards don't change their spots

A zebra does not change its spots.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

In a bathroom choose a bold color pattern on the tile on a feature wall. Simple changes like that add a unique element that stands out.

There's no one on the road that I tried to pattern myself after. There's no one in history that I tried to pattern myself after. Because one thing I was told that in standup you want to develop your own voice.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again.