Quotes About Disorder

Truly random data remains spread out in an undefined mess. But chaos-deterministic and patterned-pulls the data into visible shapes. Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

orderly disorder created by simple processes. Truly random data remains spread out in an undefined mess. But chaos—deterministic and patterned—pulls the data into visible shapes. Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Above all, in a universe ruled by entropy, drawing inexorably toward greater and greater disorder, how does order arise?

The repetitions were never quite exact. There was pattern, with disturbances. An orderly disorder.

Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy:

Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme.

As an element in the world revealed by computer exploration, the strange attractor began as a mere possibility, marking a place where many great imaginations in the twentieth century had failed to go. Soon, when scientists saw what computers had to show, it seemed like a face they had been seeing everywhere, in the music of turbulent flows or in clouds scattered like veils across the sky. Nature was constrained. Disorder was channeled, it seemed, into patterns with some common underlying theme.

Information can be considered as order wrenched from disorder.

Still, to understand how the human mind sorts through the chaos of perception, surely one would need to understand how disorder can produce universality.

I have.... "Asshole Proximity Disorder

The faint sour stink of rotted cabbages came towards him from the kitchengardens on the rising ground above the river. He smiled to think that it was this disorder, the misrule and confusion of his father's house and the stagnation of vegetable life, which was to win the day in his soul.

just another gargoyle that took up temporary residence in Danny Boy's dreams and went away. "Some people say insomnia is a disorder.

When chaos loomed, reason and accountability went out of the window.

The Gasman leaned over and examined the tangled pile of stereo guts spread out on the kitchen table. "It looks like a robot came in here and threw up," he observed

THE MADNESS NEVER STOPS

You must have a theory," Bobby said. "Here it is. The killer has multiple personality disorder." Justine sighed. "And every one of his personalities is psychopathic.

The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.

After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown.

A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

It is the pride of kings that throws man kind into confusion.

The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.