Capable Quote by Christopher Alexander

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns.

— Fritjof Capra

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

— Jan Peacock

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit…

— Peter L. Berger

We make patterns, we share moments.

— Jenny Downham

We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

— Jean Berko Gleason

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They…

— Robert Barry

Pattern-finding is the purpose of the mind and the construct of the universe. There are an infinite number of patterns, some of which are…

— Agnes Denes

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find…

— Ernst Cassirer

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

— Molly Haskell

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

— Charles Taylor

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

— Robert Morgan

“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you are dreaming…

— Louise Erdrich