56 ;;Quote: the universe is unfolding in time and not unraveling; it is constantly more complex and richer in information

57 ;;Quote: the diffusion of perfume always proceeds in the same direction, but its microscopic events are freely reversible

64 ;;Quote: under entropy, macroscopic information is converted into microscopic information (i.e., the location of molecules)

65 ;;Quote: with a statistical distribution, microscopic properties do not have meaning because any pattern is certain to be found many times

66 ;;Quote: displacing one gram of matter by one centimeter at the distance of Sirius effects (in one microsecond) the microscopic state of a macroscopic volume of gas

66 ;;Quote: random perturbations from the rest of the universe dissipates microscopic information; ensures the growth of thermodynamic entropy

68 ;;Quote: if statistical properties are spatially independent, the meaningful properties of the universe are statistical and not microscopic

68 ;;Quote: if the universe expanded more rapidly than the effect of physical processes; it could produce macroscopic information

69 ;;Quote: Laplace--an intelligence could know the entire universe, past and future, given sufficient information at some instant