Along for the ride Quote by Peter Watts

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.”

— Mark Frost

“Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.”

— 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

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines.

— Richard Linklater

“the adaptive capabilities of our brains—like pattern recognition—did not evolve to make sense of complex commercial environments like those we live in.”

— David DiSalvo

We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.

— Pema Chodron

“Intelligence isn't knowing everything it is knowing where to find the answers”

— Dr. Catherine Cameron

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.”

— Jeff Vandermeer

“It's always seemed like a big mystery how nature, seemingly so effortlessly, manages to produce so much that seems to us so complex. Well,…

— Stephen Wolfram