Seth Lloyd over de dood, belastingen en de tweede wet van de thermodynamica
Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.
unsupported characters, or include a non-local or incorrectly linked interwiki prefix. You may be able to locate the desired page by searching for its name (with interwiki prefix, if any) in the search box.
Possible causes are:
If you tried to access a non-local interwiki page, you may be able to access that page by clicking the "article" tab on this page.
Lloyd, Nature Vol. 430, No. 971 (26 augustus 2004)