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Binary Quotes

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

"The Future of Faith" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. November 29, 1999.

I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.

Robert A. Heinlein (1959). “The Door Into Summer”, Roc

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

"Feeling Myself: Kathleen Hanna Gets Back to Work". Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2015.

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

"Chuck Palahniuk in conversation with Tom Spanbauer". Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com. May 2014.

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

Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.23, Ballantine Books