Binary Quotes

36 quotes by 34 authors

Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of… — John Updike
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary… — William Gaddis
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. — Gautama Buddha
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning. — Sheila Jeffreys
Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their… — Alexander Stepanov
There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little… — Frederick Lenz
Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a… — Sarah Manguso
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is… — Honore de Balzac
I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary… — Bill Gates
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no. — Carl Sagan
There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different… — Michel Foucault
I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. — Kathleen Hanna
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim… — Jackson Katz
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly… — Bill Gates
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's… — Henry Louis Gates
String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to… — Brian Greene
The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is… — Naveen Jain
A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you… — George Lucas
And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or… — Jason Reitman
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs. — Linus Torvalds

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