Japhy Grant

“The demon replaces chance with purpose. It uses information to reduce entropy.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Alan Turing once whimsically proposed a number N, defined as “the odds against a piece of chalk leaping across the room and writing a line of Shakespeare on the board.”♦”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“Promises take many shapes, and the more… momentous they are, the more they might look like threats. All great promises are threats, I suppose, to the way things have been until that point, to some aspect of our lives, and we all suddenly become conservative, even though we want and need what the promise holds, and look forward to the promised change at the same time.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“Thought interferes with the probability of events, and, in the long run therefore, with entropy. —David L. Watson (1930)”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood