"Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice." -- Christopher Alexander

"These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Game, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences and arts, but especially mathematics and music (and musicology), and capable of expressing and establishing interrelationships between the content and conclusions of nearly all scholarly disciplines." -- Hesse, Magister Ludi or "The Glass Bead Game"