Anything Quote by Edward M. Lerner

The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with…

— George M. Whitesides

“Ben developed a similarly Byzantine system for memorizing binary digits, which enables him to convert any ten-digit-long string of ones and zeros into a…

— Joshua Foer

“Any string of symbols that can be given an abbreviated representation is called algorithmically compressible.”

— John D. Barrow

Computer programmers do it byte by byte

— Alan Kay

“data outlives code.”

— Martin Kleppmann

The genetic code is not a binary code as in computers, nor an eight-level code as in some telephone systems, but a quaternary code…

— Richard Dawkins

Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final…

— Saul Gorn

A data structure is just a stupid programming language.

— Bill Gosper

In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not there if you want to keep writing good code.

— Karl Lehenbauer

In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits.

— Bob Barton

At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

— James Gleick

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

— Jawaharlal Nehru