Thomas Chatterton Williams

What I know now is that I used to not just tolerate but submit to and even on some deep level need our society's web of problems called race, its received and dangerous habits of thinking about and organizing people along a binary of white and black, free and unfree, even once I suspected them to be irredeemably flawed.

American Critic

Stacey Abrams

First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.

American Politician

Masaba Gupta

We are now welcoming a world where fashion is not bogged down by binary gender norms. The trend is moving beyond symbolizing its wearers' identity or gender. It's now being accepted by the mainstream as more of a look, both on the catwalk and the high street.

Indian Designer

Hugh Grant

It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.

English Actor

William Gaddis

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.

American Novelist

Richard Powers

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Phyllis Schlafly

Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or little, inside or outside, wet or dry, good or bad, boy or girl, man or woman.

American Activist

Tommy Dorfman

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.

American Actor

Nicole Maines

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.

American Actress

Laura Kuenssberg

Human beings rarely do things for a binary reason.

British Journalist

Think of 'binary' as a partnership where two components must work together.

Partnership Concept

Remember 'binary' isn't just for computers; it's used in many dual systems.

Beyond Computers

In computing, 'binary' is fundamental and represents the most basic data.

Computing Basics

Don't confuse 'binary' with 'digital'; 'binary' refers specifically to two states.

Digital Clarification

In astronomy, a 'binary' refers to two celestial bodies paired together.

Astronomical Pair

One star in a binary system might be hard to see, but it's still a pair.

Not Always Visible

'Binary' can signify two opposing forces or concepts, like yes and no.

Dual Representation

Using 'binary' can imply a limitation to two categories, which can be overly simplistic.

Categorical Thinking

'Binary' weapons combine two harmless elements to create a harmful one.

Chemical Reaction

 that determines the intensity of that particular color. Then, a video driver program transmits this information to the millions of liquid crystals in your screen to make all the different hues you see now. The sound in this video is also stored in binary, with the help of a technique called pulse code modulation.

How exactly does binary...

 But it's this type of structuring that has to be reframed in order to let love in. My body never betrayed me, and my body was never wrong. It's this restrictive, binary thinking on gender that said that I didn't exist. But when we met, she loved me for exactly how I showed up.

A queer vision of love...

 Let's forget about finger sections for a moment and look at the simplest case of having just two options per finger, up and down. This won't allow us to represent powers of ten, but it's perfect for the counting system that uses powers of two, otherwise known as binary.

How high can you count...

 as it radiates away its energy in the form of electromagnetic and gravity waves. But not all neutron stars disappear so quietly. For example, we’ve observed binary systems where a neutron star co-orbits another star. A neutron star can feed on a lighter companion,

The life cycle of a...

 such as living without physical or mental attachments, avoiding binary thinking, and realizing one’s true “Buddha-nature." But by framing those lessons as illogical anecdotes, they became tests to help practicing monks learn to live with ambiguity and paradox.

Zen kōans: Unsolvable...

 Castillo we live in this modern world hugely interconnected globally based in large part on our ability to communicate graphically everything from like binary coding computers to texting and we take

Inventing Graphics on...

 that we don't fit inside our boxes, either. And the truth is that nobody actually fits in a box, because they don't exist. This binary, this false male-female facade is something we constructed,

The way we think about...

 Take a look. If you live only once, in one-life cultures around the world, you will see an obsession with binary logic, absolute truth, standardization, absoluteness, linear patterns in design.

East vs west -- the...

 Yeah? As a trans person who doesn't fit neatly into the gender binary, if I could change the world tomorrow to make it easier for me to navigate, the very first thing I would do

Why we need gender-neutra...

 keep it at a little less than that because that's probably too warm that led to a very important design decision to make it binary green means product is good to go