Quotes About Binary Code

#1. Culture is sustained in our synapses ... It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Nicholas Carr

#2. 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 with four symbols. The machine code of the genes is uncannily computerlike.

Richard Dawkins

#3. Do you know what my name is, converted to binary code?"
He looked at her. "Is Tanzie your full name?"
"No. But it's the one I use."
He blew out his cheeks. "Um. Okay. 01010100 01100001 01101110 01111010 01101001 01100101."
"Did you say 1010 at the end? Or 0101?"
"1010. Duh.

Jojo Moyes

#4. I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.

Meg Cabot

#5. 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

#6. Mattie was in love with Daniel, of course; this was the X within the circle on her map: I love Daniel.

Anne Lamott

#7. (The code became known as the dot-and-dash alphabet, but the unmentioned space remained just as important; Morse code was not a binary language.*) That

James Gleick

#8. All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Friedrich Engels

#9. This peculiar boy with the golden blond hair I had actually touched.

Quil Carter

#10. 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.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I hated suits until I wore a Calvin Klein; they just fit me.

Kid Cudi

#12. The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Giacomo Leopardi

#13. The postgrad at least knew enough to know that he would never know enough, lying under the stars which hung from the inky sky like bunches of inconceivably heavy, lustrous grapes, dusted with the yeast of eternity.

Will Self

#14. You are the earth, my dear grandson, and just like it takes everything without complaining, so have you shown us today that you will take everything in kind, and there's no greater title than this.

Dora Okeyo

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

Ian Stewart

#16. It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.

Soren Kierkegaard