#patterns

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#band #body #doing #garage #hear

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#capable #deep #discover #first #generating

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#aptly #combined #description #enrichment #illustrate

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#free #interpretation #less #make #more

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. ↗

— Ernst Engel

#declines #demand #employment #expenditures #food

Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can. ↗

— Siobhan Fahey

#correcting #into #life #life is a #out

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. ↗

— Jules Feiffer

#father #grew #i #looks #mother

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#another #aspect #because #composing #ever

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#entire #fabric #her #longest #nature

Some things are only capable of being done in space. Examples of that are looking at our Earth from that far away, and understanding the entire processes of storms and weather patterns, and oceans, and coastlines. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#being #being done #capable #coastlines #done