The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. — James Howard Kunstler 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
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
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
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
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
“Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
I think we defy entropy and impermanence with our films and our poems. We hold onto each other a little harder and… — Jason Silva 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
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
Programming is a Dark Art, and it always will be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the… — Damian Conway Copy Share Image
“In despair, I offer your readers their choice of the following definitions of entropy. My authorities are such books and journals as… — Sydney Herbert Evershed Copy Share Image
“At first, one might think that something like thermodynamics is a rather restrictive concept because it concerns itself with temperature and heat.… — John D. Barrow 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
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
“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
“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
“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed,… — Jonathan Culver Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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 theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the… — Rudolf Arnheim 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
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently… — Chuck Klosterman 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
Death is not necessarily what gives meaning to life LIFE gives meaning to life, and what we do with life, which is… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
“The law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water &… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m… — John Green Copy Share Image
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