Quotes About Reversibility

First rule of restorations. Never do what you can't undo.

Mom had always taught all of us to examine decisions by reversibility—that is, to hedge our bets. When you couldn't decide between two things, she suggested you choose the one that allowed you to change course if necessary. Not the road less traveled

Mom had always taught all of us to examine decisions by reversibility—that is, to hedge our bets. When you couldn't decide between two things, she suggested you choose the one that allowed you to change course if necessary. Not the road less traveled but the road with the exit ramp.

Mom had always taught all of us to examine decisions by reversibility—that is, to hedge our bets. When you couldn't decide between two things, she suggested you choose the one that allowed you to change course if necessary.

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

En aquel momento tuve por vez primera la intuición falaz de que el pasado no es un lugar estable sino cambiante, permanentemente alterado por el futuro, y de que por tanto nada de lo ya acontecido es irreversible.

Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée

Everything, it seems, revolves on this reversibility of higher and lower case It/it. The miracle consists in the transubstantiation of higher into lower, extraordinary into ordinary, transcendence into immanence. And vice versa. It is a moment both kenotic (the emptying of Word into flesh) and eucharistic (the celebration of the infinite in the finite bread and wine of quotidian experience).

It's not that easy. You can make omelet from eggs, but not eggs from omelet.

Don't get too serious to where things can't go back.

Time's arrow is irreversible, because entropy cannot decrease of its own accord without violating the second law of thermodynamics. A reversible arrow would be like a movie run backward. The scenes in the movie are not impossible by the laws of classical mechanics, but they are patently absurd.

Never do what you can't undo until you've considered well what you can't do once you've done it.

Not a perfect quote, but close." "Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it.

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again.

we can think of determinism as working backward as well as forward in time.

Gains achieved at great cost against our enemy in Afghanistan are reversible.

These examples both demonstrate that the laws of physics, notably Newton's laws, are time-reversible. They work just as well backwards in time as forwards, and there is no place in them for the second law of thermodynamics. The fundamental laws of physics do not distinguish between past and future.

it is relatively easy to scramble an egg, but to unscramble it is far harder.

La vie ne connaît pas la réversibilité. Mais si elle n'admet pas le rétablissement, la vie admet des réparations qui sont vraiment des innovations physiologiques. La réduction plus ou moins grande de ces possibilités d'innovation mesure la gravité de la maladie. Quant à la santé, au sens absolu, elle n'est pas autre chose que l'indétermination initiale de la capacité d'institution de nouvelles normes biologiques.

the more profound the statement, the more reversible; the deep truths are sedimented in syntax, the terms can be reversed, just as there is no principle of noncontradiction, no law of excluded middle, governing the unconscious. Then, briefly serious, Klaus would touch my shoulder: A quote like that can save your life.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

the key concept that ensures reversibility is conservation of information—if the information needed to specify the state of the world is preserved as time passes, we will always be able to run the clock backward and recover any previous state. That's where the real puzzle concerning the arrow of time will arise.