Entropy Quotes

74 quotes by 60 authors

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
Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by… — Jacques Monod
One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march… — Aldous Huxley
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down,… — George Carlin
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of… — Erwin Schrodinger
Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the… — Albert Claude
Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that… — Rudolf Arnheim
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of… — Rudolf Arnheim
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy… — Gilbert N. Lewis
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all abundantly… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder… — Stephen Hawking
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson
Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy. — Alfred Bester
Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase… — Norbert Wiener
Just as entropy is a measure of disorganization, the information carried by a set of messages is a measure of organization. In fact, it is… — Norbert Wiener
My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it â€˜informationâ€™, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call… — Claude Shannon
The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang… — Brian Greene
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. — Robert Smithson
The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy. — James Gleick

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