"The tendency for entropy to increase in isolated systems is expressed in the second law of thermodynamics — perhaps the most pessimistic and amoral formulation in all human thought." — Gregory Hill and Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia (1965)
"The law that entropy always increases holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation." — Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1915), chapter 4
"Life is nature's solution to the problem of preserving information despite the second law of thermodynamics."
— Howard L. Resnikoff, The Illusion of Reality (1989)
"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless." — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
credits
from Directions,
track released February 6, 2011
Recorded by Leonard Ritter.
A hazy, laid-back take on drum & bass from The Hague-based beatmaker, inspired by jaunts along the Californian and Argentinan coasts. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 22, 2023
