If we assume there is no maximum possible entropy for the universe, then any state can be a state of low entropy. — Alan Guth Copy Share Image
Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since "no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“This is another way in which he is an admirable person. If he notices something is broken, he will try to fix… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
I find the big bang, really quite fascinating. I mean, here you have all these highfalutin scientists and they're saying it was… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
The body and mind are one. When the intimate relationship between mind and body is disrupted, aging and entropy accelerate. Restoring mind/body… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
One of the ongoing themes of my work of interest has been the idea of the inevitably of disintegration, of entropy, constant… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I… — Claude Shannon Copy Share Image
“Scrutiny's not really our thing," says Christina. "Then how do you make things better?" the little girl asks. We don't, really," Christina… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Information, defined intuitively and informally, might be something like 'uncertainty's antidote.' This turns out also to be the formal definition- the amount… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow… — Craig Clevenger Copy Share Image
“It will be noticed that the fundamental theorem proved above bears some remarkable resemblances to the second law of thermodynamics. Both are… — Ronald A. Fisher Copy Share Image
Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place. — John Tooby Copy Share Image
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“We’re constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust — entropy always wins.” — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
'Entropy' will be a kaleidoscope of thought processes and my identity as an Indian who grew up in California. — Sid Sriram Copy Share Image
The most basic human impulse is toward entropy and laziness. The less we have to do to grow spiritually, the more likely… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image