Quotes About Pattern

that's why we need recursion here: the number of nested loops is arbitrary, and depends on the length of the sequence permuted:

The more important point here is that this Manager alternative is representative of a general coding pattern usually known as delegation — a composite-based structure that manages a wrapped object and propagates method calls to it.

History may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind - creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers.

Habit is a form of exercise.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Seeing the pattern, understanding the true nature of sociopathy, and, most crucially, possessing effective methods to thwart the sociopath's agenda will allow you to identify sociopathy confidently and respond with wise and powerful action when life absolutely requires you to take a stand.

Repetition is the root of all software evil

Instead we experience reactive commentaries on thoughts and feelings. The ability to meet with stillness all that appears and disappears in awareness will gradually (very gradually) replace this deeply ingrained pattern of meeting experiences with reactive commentary.

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

Love is a canvas pattern furnished by Nature, and embroidered by imagination.

Maybe that is what beauty was, for humans. Accidents, imperfections, placed inside a pretty pattern. Asymmetry. The defiance of mathematics.

But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life's moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.

In all chaos there is a cosmos," said Carl Jung, "in all disorder a secret order.

When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life's moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.

History repeats itself because man remains at the same level of being—namely, he attracts again and again the same circumstances, feels the same things, says the same things, hopes the same things, believes the same things. And yet nothing actually changes. All the articles that were written in the last war are just the same as the articles written in this war, and will be for ever and ever. But what concerns us more is that the same idea applies to ourselves, to each individual person.

Knife, Fork, Spoon. Rock, Paper, Scissors. It's the Rule of Three.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people's responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we've done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle.

All things happen in perfect order.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

Once you cross a certain threshold, money doesn't get you more happiness. Our main concern is that if you have growth which is blind, fed by people's growing consumption, it's not really sustainable. What we are trying to do in our own little context is see what pattern of growth will be sustainable and desirable." Fellow Traveler The secretary introduces me to another government minister, a fortyish gentleman who has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

Truman recognized the importance of submitting to an established pattern in a system much larger than himself. He tied his decision to the importance of the time-honored, limiting presidential precedence. In his declaration on this matter, Truman stated simply, "When Rome forgot Cincinnatus, its downfall began."508