Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct. — Ben Chestnut Copy Share Image
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would… — Moby Copy Share Image
“A law in physics, called the second law of thermodynamics, says that entropy, or chaos (the opposite of growth…a winding-down process), increases… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
I'm trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it's interesting to think that connects directly… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
“Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased—thus do we refute entropy." Stated another way: "Just as there are Laws of Conservation of… — Spider Robinson 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
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
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as… — Jacques Monod Copy Share Image
The aggressive incoherence of our common surroundings can be described as entropy made visible. The way we have disposed things on the… — James Howard Kunstler 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
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the… — Arthur Eddington 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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 arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low… — Sean M. Carroll 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
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
“Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases. Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic… — Paul Kalanithi 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
Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then… — Douglas Rushkoff 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
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
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
The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you find an egg in your refrigerator, you're not surprised. You don't say, 'Wow, that's a low-entropy configuration. That's unusual,' because… — Sean M. Carroll 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
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