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The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. — Stephen Hawking

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

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

Thinking generates entropy.") — James Gleick

If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home. — Tamsin Greig

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

According to Lamarck, there was a force - the 'power of life' - that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Lisa cried until there was nothing left to cry about. — Joshua Edward Smith

Shared pain is lessened.
Shared joy is increased.
Thus we refute entropy. — Spider Robinson

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die. — Jodi Picoult

I did not want the universe's ever-growing entropy to interfere with my lovelife — David Levithan

You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state. — Brian Greene

Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct. — Ben Chestnut

The organism feeds on negative entropy. — Erwin Schrodinger

The energy of the universe is constant. — Rudolf Clausius

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

Suck it, Entropy. We have an appointment, my old friend, but not today. — Colson Whitehead

Entropy is the price of structure. — Ilya Prigogine

Humanity enveloped in entropy desperately seeking symmetry for peace of mind — Dean Cavanagh

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

Human says time goes by -
Time says human goes by — Anonymous

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. — Karl Lehenbauer

Things fall apart, even when you think they're stronger than anything you could ever imagine. — Susane Colasanti

History shows that people are as changeable as rivers. — Andres Neuman

It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase. — Isaac Asimov

QUESTION: Who governs the governors?
ANSWER: Entropy. — Frank Herbert

I'm a human entropy producer. — Dean Kamen

Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed. — Michael Ende

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

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. — James Howard Kunstler

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

Information is entropy. This was the strangest and most powerful notion of all. — James Gleick

So the second law is merely probabilistic. Statistically, everything tends toward maximum entropy. — James Gleick

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

The history of life is written in terms of negative entropy. — James Gleick

The universe is full of fuel. — Anthony Doerr

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

Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information. — Hans Christian Von Baeyer

entropy is always lurking on the borders of information-rich anomalies, — Cesar Hidalgo

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

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.
("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

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

Entropy," she chirps. "It's the theory that all matter in the universe is gradually moving toward the same temperature. Also known as 'heat death. — Veronica Roth

For once, entropy was on my side. — Anonymous

like all material things, they were not immune to the corruptions of Time and its patient, unsleeping servant, Entropy. — Arthur C. Clarke

We're constantly moving dust from one place to another, only to have it replaced by more dust - entropy always wins. — Pablo Picasso

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

Stupid entropy ruins everything. — Jennifer Ouellette

First law: The energy of the universe is constant. Second law: The entropy of the universe always increases. — James Gleick

You can disappear here without knowing it. — Bret Easton Ellis

Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. - David L. Watson — James Gleick

It is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things. — Peter F. Hamilton

Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases. — Paul Kalanithi

Entropy is a bitch, — Dan Simmons

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

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. — Jerry Saltz

Entropy and optimism: The twin forces that make the world go around. — Neil Gaiman

You cannot fight entropy. — Peter F. Hamilton

People are, at their heart, constantly moving toward a state of entropy. Much like this ship. We're all spiraling out of control. — Beth Revis

The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy. — William Poundstone

Von Neumann told Shannon to call his measure entropy, since no one knows what entropy is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage. — Jeremy Campbell

Entropy increases. Things fall apart. — John Green

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

I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly. — Cary Fukunaga

Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy: — James Gleick

This universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists. — Peter F. Hamilton

For Wiener, entropy was a measure of disorder; for Shannon, of uncertainty. Fundamentally, as they were realizing, these were the same. — James Gleick

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. — William C. Brown

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy. — Alfred Bester

The entropy of a closed system never decreases. Every process must by law decay. — Anthony Doerr

Only entropy comes easy. — Anton Chekhov

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

This must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end. — Peter F. Hamilton

How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them? — Joshua Edward Smith

Death, decay, entropy, and destruction are the true suspensions of God's laws; miracles are the early glimpses of restoration. — Philip Yancey

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

Creativity is our only weapon against entropy — Dean Cavanagh