Entropy Quote by James Gleick Download Open image “It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.” — James Gleick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entropy Purpose Quixotic Sometimes Universe
Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place. — John Tooby 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 are breaking… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
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… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
By choosing not to allow parts of ourselves to exist, we are forced to expend huge amounts of psychic energy to keep them beneath… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“No one has even a definitive spelling for Cawdrey’s name (Cowdrey, Cawdry). But then, no one agreed on the spelling of most names: they… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
A book is not necessarily made of paper. A book is not necessarily made to be read on a Kindle. A book is a… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“From this point of view, the laws of science represent data compression in action. A theoretical physicist acts like a very clever coding algorithm.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Your body moves always in the present, the dividing line between the past and the future, but your mind is more free. It can… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate.… — James Gleick 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 only delays… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus we are… — Norbert Wiener 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 the energy… — Dan Pallotta Copy Share Image
You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for… — Peter Guthrie Tait 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 stars as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water & soil, all… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
