"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."

-- George M. Whitesides

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“I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.”

Source : "Answer Man: Joey Votto talks bowling, mustaches, hockey, Italy". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. April 24, 2009.
“Democracy passes into despotism.”
“Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.”
“Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.”

Source : Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books
“Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.”

Source : "The philosophy of Francis Bacon: An address delivered at Cambridge on the occasion of the Bacon tercentenary". Book by C. D. Broad, p. 67, October 5, 1926.
“Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.”

Source : Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”
“No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.”
“What is a hero without love for mankind.”

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