Philip K. Dick Quotes

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

The total disorder in the universe, as measured by the quantity that physicists call entropy, increases steadily over time. Also, the total order in the universe, as measured by the complexity and permanence of organized structures, also increases steadily over time.

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself.

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!

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table.

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

You may see a cup of tea fall off a table and break into pieces on the floor... But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table. The increase of disorder, or entropy, is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

Entropy requires no maintenance.

When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?

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

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

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

Things seem to fall apart inevitably.

Things fall apart, it's scientific.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

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

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.

'Entropy' broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

You're an entropic chaos factor