"What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized yet."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Survivor)

"Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not."
— Michael Shermer

"There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Chosen)

"Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life."
— Steven Pinker

"I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Chosen)