“Only entropy comes easy.” - Anton Chekhov (c.1900); also stated by Lewis Mumford (1970)
“You should call it entropy, because nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.” -  John Neumann (c.1939), suggestion to Claude Shannon on what to call his new formula for information
“Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.” -  Vaclav Havel (1986), Czech playwright
Source: EOHT
Posted: 2026 Jan 10
Isabel
I love the philosophical quote.
Tom
Tom – 🙂 I guess it’s possible that it was added by the person installing the cement, with reference to their career aspirations.
Reflections are fascinating. You’ve done some before — skyscrapers reflected in car fenders, bridges on water, etc. — but it’s the sheer simplicity of these images in the sunglasses that catches me.
Obviously, one can’t go through life looking only at reflections, but life would be much less rich if one NEVER looked at reflections.
Jim T
Jim T – 🙂 Thanks – I like these, also. I recently saw some lovely reflections of palm trees in office windows, but needed my good camera and its zoom to get them. By the time I was close enough to capture them with my phone, the angle was wrong.
Abe Lincoln, in his merrier moments said, “You’re only as happy as you decide to be.”
Barbara – LOL. He doesn’t seem like the cheeriest guy, does he?
Perhaps it is his voice — which, apparently, sounded like a 13-year-old girl. THAT changes the Gettysburg Address, doesn’t it?
Still, a great man, merry or not.