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Quotes About Binary

The flip side of this is that any information that can be reduced to a choice among two or more possibilities can be expressed using bits. Needless
~ Charles Petzold
The method you use is something called the base two logarithm. The logarithm is the opposite of the power. We know that 2 to the 7th power equals 128. The base two logarithm of 128 equals 7.
~ Charles Petzold
Bits also play a part in logic, that strange blend of philosophy and mathematics for which a primary goal is to determine whether certain statements are true or false. True
~ Charles Petzold
In the same way that Morse code reduces written language to dots and dashes, the spoken version of the code reduces speech to just two vowel sounds. The key word here is two. Two types of blinks, two vowel sounds, two different anything, really, can with suitable combinations convey all types of information.
~ Charles Petzold
Escape codes let you "escape" from the humdrum, routine interpretation of a sequence of codes and move to a new interpretation. As we'll see in later chapters, shift codes and escape codes are common when written languages are represented by binary codes.
~ Charles Petzold
When forgiveness experts talk in binary language ("You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate"), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.
~ Harriet Lerner
The stars blink their existence into the world in sentient binary codes.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the other, it's false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that's the direction the world needs to go in.
~ Alaska
the human brain is a binary system—synapses either fire or they don't—they are on or off, like a computer switch. The brain has over a hundred trillion switches, which means that building a brain is not so much a question of technology as it is a question of scale.
~ Dan Brown
the regime then kept alive these binary categories for nearly forty years,
~ Helen Graham
So we see the complex and contradictory motives that so often lay behind the apparently binary choices made by people in the wake of the rebellion. Indeed, this enforced reductiveness, the obligation to 'take sides', constitutes the coup's first, and most enduring, act of violence.
~ Helen Graham
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 had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
~ Henry Louis Gates
I've always presented as a very cisgender male and that was part of the reason I was able to cover so easily... I was always in such a strictly binary environment growing up. I was never given an opportunity to sort of play into more genderqueer fashion.
~ Eugene Lee Yang
Digital organisms, while not necessarily any more alive than a phone book, are strings of code that replicate and evolve over time. Digital codes are strings of binary digits - bits.
~ George Dyson
There is no good press and bad press. Fame is made of quantities of attention, not qualities, and is therefore binary: There is Press or No Press. Not Hot and Cold, but Hot and Off. Attention is the currency in a world with too many people—whoever arrests the news cycle long enough to make themselves the topic, wins. Personal
~ Cintra Wilson
I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid.
~ Tanya Saracho
que réside sa faiblesse, est un monde unidimensionnel, qui ne comporte que deux termes opposés : nous et eux, ami et ennemi, courage et lâcheté, héros et traître, noir et blanc. Ce système de références convient bien à une situation orientée vers la mort mais non à celles de la vie. A
~ Tzvetan Todorov
To believe in blackness solely as a negative binary in a prejudicial racialized structure, and to further believe that this binary is and will forever be the essential, eternal, and primary organizing category of human life, is a pessimist's right but an activist's indulgence. Meanwhile, there is work to be done (xxxiv).
~ Zadie Smith
My nephew Marty has a T-shirt that says on the front: "There are 10 types of people in the world…" If you read these words and are trying to think of what the ten types are, you've already typed yourself. The back of the shirt reads: "Those that understand binary, and those that don't.
~ Unknown
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.
~ Ian Stewart
I think that there's so many versions of femininity, and in terms of gender as a binary construct, that seems to be being dismantled.
~ Carrie Brownstein
Chiaroscuro is also the technique of the uncanny. I am etched with unknowing as I continue. I have crossed into a material reserve that permits a maximum of intuition, the "as if " of a speculative thinking, which is outside of knowledge. Reading shows the wrongness of the habitual reification of "the social" and "the personal" in a binary system of values. It submits this binary to a ruinous foundering. And so, an erotics.
~ Unknown
Postmodernizam obra?a pažnju na modernizam. U osnovi su modernizmi binarne reakcije, a postmodernizam polinarna reakcija.
~ Unknown
Those who lie outside citizenship and the gender binary had distinct rules applied to them, which were often mechanisms for violent domination.
~ Unknown