"Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But……" — Sarah Manguso

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• Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition… — John Updike
• I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in,… — 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… — Sheila Jeffreys
• Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that… — Alexander Stepanov
• There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We… — Frederick Lenz
• Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Jackson Katz

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