Entropy Quotes
74 quotes by 60 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
— Spider Robinson
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Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
— Alfred Bester
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Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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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
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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
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My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call…
— Claude Shannon
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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
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The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
— Robert Smithson
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The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.
— James Gleick
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