We all behave like Maxwell’s demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand castles, solve jigsaw puzzles, separate wheat from chaff, rearrange chess pieces, collect stamps, alphabetize books, create symmetry, compose sonnets and sonatas, and put our rooms in order, and all this we do requires no great energy, as long as we can apply intelligence. We propagate structure (not just we humans but we who are alive). We disturb the tendency toward equilibrium. It would be absurd to attempt a thermodynamic accounting for such processes, but it is not absurd to say we are reducing entropy, piece by piece. Bit by bit. The original demon, discerning one molecules at a time, distinguishing fast from slow, and operating his little gateway, is sometimes described as “superintelligent,” but compared to a real organism it is an idiot savant. Not only do living things lessen the disorder in their environments; they are in themselves, their skeletons and their flesh, vesicles and membranes, shells and carapaces, leaves and blossoms, circulatory systems and metabolic pathways - miracles of pattern and structure. It sometimes seems as if curbing entropy is our quixotic purpose in the universe.
James GleickTag: information organization entropy maxwell classification
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I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something -- like, say, organization ...
Richelle MeadTag: organization
The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.
Dee HockTag: love leadership community organization
When everything was laid out before her, she felt safe, loved even. She was always trying to be more organized than she was. She knew it was weird and blamed her mother, with the lists and
notes she’d leave whenever she and Dad went out of town. The labeled dinners in the freezer and the 20 emergency numbers on the phone showed she cared, even when absent, she cared.
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Organization isn't about perfection; it's about efficiency, reducing stress and clutter, saving time and money and improving your overall quality of life.
Christina ScaliseTag: life money time perfection stress clutter organization quality-of-life organize
Organization is the Devil's work.
Linda MedleyTag: organization
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Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization.
Ifeanyi Enoch OnuohaTag: books writing life-lessons organization team synergy nigeria business-success ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha leadership-torch higherlife-international
I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
Nick HornbyTag: libraries books organization cataloging
If you don't like what you got, why don't you change it? If your world is all screwed up, rearrange it!
TrooperTag: inspirational-quotes organization motivational-quotes
Time Progression: Wasting
Elizabeth Grace SaundersTag: productivity organization time-management work-life-balance business-success time-investment
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