George Gilder Quotes

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical. But when you think about it, a bit of information is a surprise. If you already knew what the message contained, there would be no new information in it.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

I always say don't make plans, make options.

The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.

Each moment is a moment of choice ~ a time to leave the old, the limited, the restrained, and the contracted for the new, the unbound, and the liberating potential that expands before you.

Entropy requires no maintenance.

Choices can be made again." -Evelyn Johnson (Eaton)

Now's the time to take a chance, come on we've gotta make a stand. What do we have to lose the choice is in our hands.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

To have a choice at all is to be privileged.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

America's all about freedom of choice, and I really hope that in the future we still have a great choice of vehicles.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

In an expanding universe, order is not really order, but merely the difference between the actual entropy exhibited and the maximum entropy possible.

My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information,' but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertainty.' When I discussed it with John von Neumann, he had a better idea. Von Neumann told me, 'You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.'

It is advertising that enthrones the customer as king. This infuriates the socialist...[it is] the crossing of the boundary between West Berlin and East Berlin. It is Checkpoint Charlie, or rather Checkpoint Douglas, the transition from the world of choice and freedom to the world of drab, standard uniformity.