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21 " Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy. "
― Jurgen Appelo , #Workout: Games, Tools & Practices to Engage People, Improve Work, and Delight Clients (Management 3.0)
22 " The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a flip-flop, a yes-or-no. It is insubstantial, yet as scientists have finally come to understand information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself. They suggest that the bit is the irreducible kernel and that information forms the very core of existence. "
― James Gleick
23 " In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions. "
24 " 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. "
25 " Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress. "
