“Which was crazier, she wondered, seeing patterns when they weren’t there, or ignoring patterns when they obviously were?”

“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.”

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”

“Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!”

“Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.”

“A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.”

“We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait.”

“Life is the continuation of existence, yet no thing endures. We are all patterns, seeking to propagate. Patterns which bring other patterns into being, then vanish, as if we’ve never been.”

“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”