Entropy Really Quotes
- [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
- 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
- You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so… — John Von Neumann