The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

Forgotten thought is the ultimate entropy!

— Neil Lintern

“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness—a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. To avoid this condition, people are naturally eager to fill…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays…

— Anonymous

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

— Michael Polanyi

“Entropy The Disintegrating Integration of Cheez-Whiz Squirts Insipid Inspiration Quoth the Oblong Eclipse of Nether-Knowledge Never Knowing Decaying Matter in a Decaying Orbit Orangutans…

— Ubiquitous Bubba

“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are…

— Norbert Wiener

What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy…

— Dan Pallotta

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems…

— James Gleick

The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

— Stephen Hawking

“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for…

— Peter Guthrie Tait

“One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glorious by such brilliant blue-white stars as…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“Another way to describe the Second Law is in terms of entropy, the degree of disorder and randomness in a system. Any spontaneous process…

— Walter Isaacson

The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all…

— Ludwig Boltzmann

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

— Elon Musk