Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of… — William C. Brown 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
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
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
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
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
“The only thing constantly changing is change The living only become dead Your hair falling out Your liver swelled up Your teeth… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“He had given her a copy of a recently published paper that held that the power of entropy weakens near the event… — Koji Suzuki Copy Share Image
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight… — Norbert Wiener 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
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
We all have those times in relationships, whether it's work or personal or family or whatever it is, where there's something that's… — Bob Mould Copy Share Image
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen.… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are… — Rudolf Arnheim 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
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
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
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
“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
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’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
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
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
“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
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
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking 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
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
