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Quotes About Patterns

The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
~ Mark Haddon
And it means that sometimes thing are so complicated that it is impossible to predict what they are going to do next, but they are only obeying really simple rules.
~ Mark Haddon
prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
~ Mark Haddon
I numeri primi sono ciò che rimane una volta eliminati tutti gli schemi: penso che i numeri primi siano come la vita. Sono molto logici ma non si riesce mai a scoprirne le regole, anche se si passa tutto il tempo a pensarci su
~ Mark Haddon
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life.
~ Mark Haddon
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
~ Mark Haddon
Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away.
~ Mark Haddon
Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits long you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
~ Mark Haddon
a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
~ Mark Haddon
Prvo?ísla jsou to, co zbyde, když odstraníte vÅ¡echna pravidla. Já myslím, že prvo?ísla jsou jako život. Jsou velmi logická, ale pravidla pro nÄ› nevymyslíte, ani kdybyste nad nimi strávili vÅ¡echen ?as.
~ Mark Haddon
You'll be shot, they cautioned. No. I won't be shot. I'm going to shoot them, and then I'll go home. I'll be perfectly safe. I can see the future, and the clouds are lifting. You can see the future? How can you see the future? I know enough now about the patterns of the past to see the darkness of the future unraveling before the golden light of time. Behind the clouds is the dawn. How can I possibly know such things? The fact is, I do. So watch out.
~ Mark Helprin
Intricacy is that which is given from the beginning, the birthright, and in intricacy is the hardiness of complexity that ensures against the failure of all life. This is our heritage, the piebald landscape of our time. We walk around; we see a shred of the infinite possible combinations of an infinite variety of forms. Anything can happen; any pattern of speckles may appear in a world ceaselessly bawling with newness.
~ Annie Dillard
V prvom rade sú to naÅ¡e myÅ¡lienkové vzorce, nie udalosti, ktoré nás vedú k nespokojnosti, ?i spokojnosti.
~ Anselm Grün
There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
History never repeats itself—but historical situations recur." As
~ Arthur C. Clarke
the very atoms of his simple brain were being twisted into new patterns. If he survived, those patterns would become eternal, for his genes would pass them on to future generations. It was a slow, tedious business, but the crystal monolith was patient. Neither it, nor its replicas scattered across half the globe, expected to succeed with all the scores of groups involved in the experiment.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
But economical Mother Nature was always repeating herself, on such vastly different scales as the swirl of milk stirred into coffee, the cloud lanes of a cyclonic storm, the arms of a spiral nebula.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
La Historia nunca se repite… pero las situaciones históricas vuelven a ocurrir.»
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Existe entre los hechos delictivos un gran parecido de familia, y si usted se sabe por completo y en detalle un millar de casos, pocas veces deja de poner en claro el mil uno.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
As soon as we're born, we become a part of patterns, the intimate ones we create with those we live among, and the patterns so large that it takes a lifetime to perceive a fragment of the possibilities.
~ Sherwood Smith
We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it was leaning sideways.
~ Shirley Jackson
Fear', the doctor said, 'is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson
Fear is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
~ Shirley Jackson