“Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.”
Source: A Brief History of Time (1988), Ch. 9
Context: 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!
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Founding Address (1876)
Context: We have already transgressed the limit of safety, and the present disorders of our time are but precursors of other and imminent dangers. The rudder of our ship has ceased to move obedient to the helm. We are drifting on the seething tide of business, each one absorbed in holding his own in the giddy race of competition, each one engrossed in immediate cares and seldom disturbed by thoughts of larger concerns and ampler interests. Even our domestic life has lost much of its former warmth and geniality.
“Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)”
Source: Born of the Night
“Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.”
Markings (1964)
Dr. Mujeeb, in p. 75.
About Zakir Hussain, Quest for Truth (1999)
"The Dalkey archive" (1964)
Source: The Dalkey Archive
“Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.”
Source: Better than Life
NDP releases "extremist of the Day" number 1 http://www.albertandp.ca/ndp_releases_extremist_of_the_day_number_1, quoted in the Edmonton Journal on May 11, 2011, Alberta's NDP (April 9, 2015)
“What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.”
Quoted on Who Said That?, BBC TV (8 August 1958)
1950s