"In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Eah pattern can exist in the world, only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the largerr patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and hte smaller patterns which are embedded in it." p. xiii

"To some degree, there is compression in every single word we utter, just because each word carries the whisper of the meanings of the words it is connected to. Even "Please pass the butter, Fred" has some compression in it, because it carries overtnes that lie in the connections of these words to all the words which came before it."
"Each f us, talking to our friends, or to our families, make use of these connections between words which are given by the language. The more we can feel all the connections in the language, the more rich and subtle are the things we say at the most ordinary times."
"and once again, the same is true in building. The compression of patterns into a sinhgle space, is not a poetic and exotic thinkg, kept for special buildings which are works of art. it is the ost ordinary economy of space. it is quite possible that all the patterns for a house might, in some form be present, and overlapping, in a simple one-room cabin. The patterns do not need to be trung out, and kept separate. Every building, every room, every garden is better, when all the patterns which it needs are compressed as far as it is possible fo them to be. The building will; be cheaper; and the meanings in it will be denser."
"It is essential then, once you have learned to use the language, that you pay attention to the possiblity of compressing the many patterns which you put together, in the smallest possible space. You may thinko of this process of compressing patterns, as a way to make the cheapest possible building whihc has the necessary patterns in it. It is, also, the only way of using a pattern language to make buildings which are poems."

A Pattern Language pp. xliiii-xliv


*"do what you can to establish a world government, with a thousand independent regions, instead of cuontries;"* -p. 9
- page 12: Lord Wemouth of Warminster, England in a letter to the New York Times, march 15, 1973