“Mike Rother says that it almost doesn’t matter what you improve, as long as you’re improving something. Why? Because if you are… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder,… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy,… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The fundamental laws of the universe which correspond to the two fundamental theorems of the mechanical theory of heat. 1. The energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Entropy The Disintegrating Integration of Cheez-Whiz Squirts Insipid Inspiration Quoth the Oblong Eclipse of Nether-Knowledge Never Knowing Decaying Matter in a Decaying… — Ubiquitous Bubba Copy Share Image
“(I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“You believe in entropy, which postulates that all phenomena tend to sink to lower levels of organization and energy, and in evolution,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a… — Peter Guthrie Tait Copy Share Image
“Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, classes, other loyalty groups… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
In the complex course of its evolution, life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law to Thermodynamics.… — J. H. Rush Copy Share Image
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In… — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
“Time goes forward because energy itself is always moving from an available to an unavailable state. Our consciousness is continually recording the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“THOMASINA: …the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue. Oh,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Entropy is one of the laws of thermodynamics. It's a physical law that says everything in nature is moving from order to… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
“People come into our lives and then they go out again. The entropy law, as applied to human relations. Sometimes in their… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Too bad. And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died--in his thirties--of kidney disease. And had been buried in… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Aeonist teachings say that no race is clean of such ignorance or violence. When faced with the threat of such things, we… — Ruthanna Emrys Copy Share Image
“He saw two stars collapse against one another and a nova form; it flared up and then, as he watched, it began… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
