Entropy Quotes

Entropy Quote of the day

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

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.

Only entropy comes easy.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

Entropy is the price of structure.

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.

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

The energy of the universe is constant.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

Entropy requires no maintenance.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

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.

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.

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind

Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

The total energy of the universe is constant; the total entropy is continually increasing.

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in this universe.

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 increases. Things fall apart.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question of what we should worry about is irrelevant in the end.

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.

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy.

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

I'm a human entropy producer.

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity.

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

There are foods that accelerate aging and entropy, and others that renew and revitalise the body.