Binary Quote by Ian Stewart

““There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.””

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If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

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“Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.”

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Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

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During the past fifty years, more mathematics has been created than in all previous ages put together.

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Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

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The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.

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I'm someone that likes to not think too binary about human qualities.

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