Entropy famous quotes

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

#Nonsense #Entropy #Cents

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

#Home #Brilliant #Entropy

I'm a human entropy producer.
-- Dean Kamen

#Producers #Entropy #Humans

Entropy is the price of structure.
-- Ilya Prigogine

#Structure #Entropy

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

#Energy #Entropy #Constant

The entropy of the universe tends to a maximum.
-- Rudolf Clausius

#Entropy #Maximum #Universe

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

#Increase #Equilibrium #Entropy

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

#Pain #Joy #Entropy

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

#Secret #Stories #Entropy

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

#Bitterness #Entropy #Remedy

One of the ongoing themes of my work of interest has been the idea of the inevitably of disintegration, of entropy, constant flux of matter, and so I've done a number of pieces that have explored those ideas. In the decline, there's a lot of beauty.
-- Michael C. McMillen

#Done #Interest #Entropy