Top 155 Binary Quotes & Sayings

We move away from only the binary boxes of "masculine" or "feminine" and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.

Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

I think that we're starting to allow ourselves to imagine that gender doesn't have to be binary, sexuality doesn't have to be binary, and you are allowed to choose who you love, how you behave, and how you dress.

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 ways of not saying things.

I was assigned female at birth. My gender identify is non-binary.

There's something problematic with this idea that straight men can be 'turned', and the binary of gay and straight and the lack of knowledge of the Kinsey scale.

Normally I am clear beforehand about which single proposal in a binary choice I am going to vote for.

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

Human beings rarely do things for a binary reason.

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 binary male-female code.

One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.

The transgender community has always been a part of Hawaiian society, where people who don't conform to the binary system of man/woman, masculine/feminine are accepted or, at minimum, tolerated.

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

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 world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

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 triangular!

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.

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 it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.

I'm non-binary, but I don't really talk about it that much.

The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?

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 fashion.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

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

If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape, as many have argued, the binary logic that underpins much of the history of western philosophy.

Transgender women especially feel like we have to fit the binary system to a T in order to not be recognized as trans.

The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

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.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Non-binary is a term used by some people, myself included, who feel that their gender identity falls outside the tradition boxes of man or woman.

XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files

Venture capitalists Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital, Steve Jurvetson of DFJ, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups all left their firms following accusations of misconduct.

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.

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 do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

We've established a world that's binary gendered, and I don't want to be disadvantaged at all. If being male is going to be more advantageous than being female, I'm all about it. I don't really think it's that important.

What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.

The New Horizons Pluto mission will be the first mission to a binary object and will help us understand everything from the origin of Earth's moon to the physics of mass transfer between binary stars.

I'm really interested in going back in to the history of non-binary people and seeing how many people in history were non-binary but that didn't know it themselves or because we didn't have the language, couldn't talk about it. I know how that felt being a young person not having that language.

Sadly, in the highest levels of economic thought in government, questions are not tolerated. It is as if we're dealing with the binary thinking of a fundamentalist religion.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.

Honestly, from a very young age, before I had the language, really - anywhere that I encountered binary, whether it was in clothing or in toys or in media, it always made me uncomfortable.

I would like to see the breakdown of the binary way of looking at gender and sexuality.

I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

Politicians and leaders who see the media as 'the enemy within' divide society into two clashing cultural camps. Populist demagogues benefit from binary oppositions.

I think our society has sort of built this gender binary, and the way we've said it exists does not really exist in nature.

It's challenging to find self-love when there's confusion and you're living in a world that's seemingly very binary and black and white.

Growing up, many of us are taught to place limits on what we can accomplish while on earth. We tend to think of things in binary form: either as possible or, more frequently, impossible.

That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.

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

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 chair can do.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

My feminist view - that gender is on a continuum and we are all better off dropping a lot of those binary notions - is one that is shared by the more recent generation of trans activists and theorists.