"Entropy requires no maintenance." — Robert Anton Wilson

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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… — Norman Ralph Augustine
• Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the… — Jacques Monod
• One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight… — Aldous Huxley
• In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature… — George Carlin
• [A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at… — Erwin Schrodinger
• Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness… — Albert Claude
• Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure.… — Rudolf Arnheim
• Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but… — Rudolf Arnheim
• It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the… — Gilbert N. Lewis
• The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air… — Ludwig Boltzmann
• Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law… — Stephen Hawking
• Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson

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