Entropy Quotes

74 quotes by 60 authors

Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against… — George Gilder
I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and… — Chris Cleave
What's important is how we use our time on this earth, not how conspicuously we give our money away. What's important is the energy and… — Dan Pallotta
Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent… — Rudolf Arnheim
Stars looking at our planet, watching entropy and pain and maybe startin' to wonder how the chaos in our lives could pass as sane. I've… — Jon Foreman
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever… — Vaclav Havel
I'm a human entropy producer. — Dean Kamen
Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. — Jerry Saltz
Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then why have any… — Douglas Rushkoff
Entropy requires no maintenance. — Robert Anton Wilson
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the… — Craig Clevenger
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of… — Haven Kimmel
There are two ways to look at life. The first view is that nothing stays the same and that nothing is inherently connected, and that… — Chuck Klosterman
And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might… — Isaac Asimov
The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Entropy increases. Things fall apart. — John Green
Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2) — Brandon Sanderson
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
Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die. — Jodi Picoult
You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state. — Brian Greene

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