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Entropy Quotes

Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place Picture Quote #1

Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy Picture Quote #1

A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you’re lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride Picture Quote #1

I’m trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it’s interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It’s all because of entropy increasing Picture Quote #1

The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought Picture Quote #1

We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist’s viewpoint, entropy Picture Quote #1

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The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you’re always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it’s all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life Picture Quote #1

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 march of entropy Picture Quote #1

Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy Picture Quote #1

If you stop being scared, that’s when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home Picture Quote #1

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 it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy Picture Quote #1

I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It’s not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly Picture Quote #1

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Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God’s laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration Picture Quote #1

Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it’s thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context Picture Quote #1

The minute those two little particles inside a woman’s womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy Picture Quote #1

The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water and soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth Picture Quote #1

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that! Picture Quote #1

We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust - entropy always wins Picture Quote #1

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Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable Picture Quote #1

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 what conditions allow Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them Picture Quote #1

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement Picture Quote #1

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases Picture Quote #1

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If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven Picture Quote #1

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape Picture Quote #1

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 entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand Picture Quote #1

Chaos comes before all principles of order and entropy, it’s neither a God nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass and define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers and phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds Picture Quote #1

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies Picture Quote #1

Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in the biosphere Picture Quote #1

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Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place. (Entropy Quotes) Technology is the means by which we have decommissioned natural selection and are seizing control. We are no longer to be victims of some blind evolutionary process where sentient beings are massacred by entropy. (Entropy Quotes) A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you’re lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride. (Entropy Quotes) I’m trying to understand cosmology, why the Big Bang had the properties it did. And it’s interesting to think that connects directly to our kitchens and how we can make eggs, how we can remember one direction of time, why causes precede effects, why we are born young and grow older. It’s all because of entropy increasing. (Entropy Quotes) The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about tomorrow. Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought. (Entropy Quotes) We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innovation, but in so doing, we create, from a physicist’s viewpoint, entropy. (Entropy Quotes) The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you’re always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it’s all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life (Entropy Quotes) 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 march of entropy. (Entropy Quotes) Whether you have a leadership title or not, you have the potential to either lead your organization beyond all expectations or inhibit its growth through entropy. (Entropy Quotes) If you stop being scared, that’s when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home (Entropy Quotes) 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 it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy. (Entropy Quotes) I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It’s not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly. (Entropy Quotes) Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God’s laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration. (Entropy Quotes) Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it’s thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context (Entropy Quotes) The minute those two little particles inside a woman’s womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy. (Entropy Quotes) The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air water and soil, all abundantly available, nor for energy which exists in plenty in the sun and any hot body in the form of heat, but rather a struggle for entropy, which becomes available through the transition of energy from the hot sun to the cold earth (Entropy Quotes) Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that! (Entropy Quotes) We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust - entropy always wins (Entropy Quotes) Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable (Entropy Quotes) 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 what conditions allow (Entropy Quotes) 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 (Entropy Quotes) Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them (Entropy Quotes) Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement (Entropy Quotes) Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases (Entropy Quotes) If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven (Entropy Quotes) Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. It seems almost as if progress itself and our fight against the increase of entropy intrinsically must end in the downhill path from which we are trying to escape (Entropy Quotes) 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 entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand (Entropy Quotes) Chaos comes before all principles of order and entropy, it’s neither a God nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass and define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers and phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds (Entropy Quotes) It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies (Entropy Quotes) Evolution in the biosphere is therefore a necessarily irreversible process defining a direction in time; a direction which is the same as that enjoined by the law of increasing entropy, that is to say, the second law of thermodynamics. This is far more than a mere comparison: the second law is founded upon considerations identical to those which establish the irreversibility of evolution. Indeed, it is legitimate to view the irreversibility of evolution as an expression of the second law in the biosphere (Entropy Quotes)

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