Seth Lloyd Quotes

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.

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

In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

The weird thing about the arrow of time is that it's not to be found in the underlying laws of physics. It's not there. So it's a feature of the universe we see, but not a feature of the laws of the individual particles. So the arrow of time is built on top of whatever local laws of physics apply.

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

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

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

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

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle.

If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had yet been gleaned in the field of general thermodynamic radiation theory.

As certain as death and taxes.

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes.

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

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

When you dead, you dead.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

Entropy requires no maintenance.