{"id":1537,"date":"2016-01-16T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T07:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.entropywins.wtf\/blog\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:54:20","slug":"quotes-entropy-the-final-enemy-of-all-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entropywins.wtf\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/quotes-entropy-the-final-enemy-of-all-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes: Entropy, the final enemy of all things"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I wrote about the books I read in 2015<\/a>, and promised a post with quotes I particularly liked. These fall into several categories: funny ones, those with a high coolness factor, and those that make one reconsider something or are otherwise interesting. Before I get to that though, I just have to post my collection of quotes on entropy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot fight entropy.\u201d
\n\u2015 Peter F. Hamilton, The Neutronium Alchemist<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cIt is the epitome of entropy, the final enemy of all things.\u201d
\n\u2015 Peter F. Hamilton, The Evolutionary Void<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cTime travel is pure bullshit, impossible; nobody can defeat causality or entropy.\u201d
\n\u2015 Peter F. Hamilton, The Temporal Void<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cVenter Biomorphics\u2014the last of the old-time corporations\u2014had finally lost the fight against entropy and been swept away.\u201d
\n<\/span>\u2015 Peter Watts, Echopraxia (Firefall)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to exist, for one moment will be like every other and nothingness will claim the universe.\u201d
\n\u2015 Peter F. Hamilton, The Temporal Void<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cOut of twinkling stardust all came, into dark matter all will fall. Death mocks us as we laugh defiance at entropy, yet ignorance birthed mortals sail forth upon time\u2019s cruel sea.\u201d
\n\u2015 Peter F. Hamilton, The Temporal Void<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis must be the sixth realm, the nameless void. Entropy is the only lord here. We will all bow down before him in the end.\u201d
\n\u2015 Peter F. Hamilton, The Naked God<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThis universe and all it is connected with will come to an end. Entropy carries us towards the inevitable omega point, that is why entropy exists.\u201d
\n\u2015 Peter F. Hamilton, The Naked God<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hamilton makes it seem like entropy is so evil. Luckily there are more enlightened characters in other novels!<\/p>\n

\u201cEntropy is a bitch,\u201d I said. \u201cNow, now,\u201d said Aenea from where she was leaning on the terrace wall. \u201cEntropy can be our friend.\u201d
\n\u2015 Dan Simmons, Endymion (Hyperion Cantos)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cNothing up there tonight but entropy, and the same imaginary shapes that people had been imposing on nature since they\u2019d first thought to wonder at the heavens.\u201d
\n<\/span>\u2015 Peter Watts, Echopraxia (Firefall)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a bonus, enjoy\u00a0this great short story by Asimov about entropy:<\/p>\n