Entropy Quote by Neil Gaiman Download Open image “Entropy and optimism: the twin forces that make the world go around.” — Neil Gaiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entropy Force Optimism Twins World
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We live in two worlds - order and chaos. In the world of order, we plan, reflect, and think about what to do next.… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps.… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
When we aren't collectively imagining hopeful futures, then the way things are going almost invariably seems negative and frightening. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Optimism inspires, energizes, and brings out our best. It points the mind toward possibilities and helps us think creatively past problems. — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Optimism invites us to reach higher and become the fullest expression of our intentions — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman 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
