Top 24 Information Entropy Quotes
#1. In the fourteenth century eighty thousand of these Covenanting Presbyterians were found in Austria and maintained their principles to the death.
Anonymous
#2. Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy:
James Gleick
#4. You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
You breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is ready, and comes to greet
The mother it longs to see
It would be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me.
A.A. Milne
#5. I think that deep down all I have been looking for is to be accepted and liked by as many people as possible.
Paul Giamatti
#6. It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
Alexander Lebedev
#7. Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
Robert Herrick
#8. In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.
Nikita Khrushchev
#9. Information is entropy. This was the strangest and most powerful notion of all.
James Gleick
#10. 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
Jean Baudrillard
#11. Man is an accident who yearns for necessity
Nigel Hems
#12. You think you know the answer, you're going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? You think after what happened there's any peace for you, sweetheart? How about this. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened.
Gillian Flynn
#13. 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
#14. This is what happens on journeys - the things you find are not necessarily the things you had gone looking for.
Anne Ursu
#15. entropy is always lurking on the borders of information-rich anomalies,
Cesar Hidalgo
#16. 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.
Gilbert N. Lewis
#17. 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
#18. The process of thinking itself requires us to view the universe in the direction of entropy, since an abstraction always involves information loss, since symbols 'abstract' complexity from observed objects.
John C. Wright
#19. I adore being hitched. It's so extraordinary to discover one unique individual you need to irritate for whatever remains of your life.
Rita Rudner
#20. When it comes to affairs of the heart, you need to look deeper than the plastic-coated shell
Daisy James
#21. 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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#22. I don't want to fight for the people, I don't want to fight against the people, I don't want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone - to live.
Ayn Rand
#23. In a physical system, information is the opposite of entropy, as it involves uncommon and highly correlated configurations that are difficult to arrive at.
Cesar Hidalgo
#24. When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
