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Trying to make bits uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet. The sooner people accept this, and build business models that take this into account, the sooner people will start making money again.
Money is information, like bits.
In the seventeenth century the pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings (shortened to s.), and a shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence (shortened to d.). So an amount might be expressed as £2 10s 6d, or £2/10/6d.
I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary numerals, and those who don't.
Stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.
Little things please little minds.
Coins from half a hundred distant cities, silver and gold, copper and bronze, square coins and round coins, triangles and rings and bits of bone
Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.
Give us, Lord, a bit o' sun, A bit o' work, and a bit o' fun. Give us all in the struggle and splutter, Our daily bread and a bit o' butter. Origin unknown, submitted by Margie Mode Clarksville, Indiana
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.
A parcel of country boobies
Analogue dollars for digital pennies.
Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down.
Twelve shillings for your sister's skates, and two shillings for your dreams.
My heart breaks literally into a thousand tiny pieces.
Add little to little and there will be a big pile.
Bit believes the treats' chemical afterburn is what the world beyond Arcadia must taste like.
We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
Small Packages [10w]
Great things come in small packages
from a geological perspective.
Bonkie bit Garp!"
Garp bit Bonkie
This was the first time anyone suggested the genome was an information store measurable in bits. Shannon's guess was conservative, by at least four orders of magnitude.
At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity.
Bit yells, Homeless Hungry? Dude, I invented Homeless Hungry. The kid just waves.
I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.
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.
There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Little things that run the world
Nothing is so small
that you cannot
cut it in half
WHY ARE YOUR HANDS ON BITS OF STRING, CHILD?
Every day in America, about 25,000 people buy a quarter-inch drill. But nobody in America wants a quarter-inch drill. What they want are holes.
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.
Measured in bits or their drolly named quantum counterpart, qubits.
One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.
An old advertising maxim says you've got to spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.
If "good" is not necessarily good, and "bad" not necessarily bad, what is "small"?
...The Little From Everything...-- Deyth Banger
Zeros now have a place, and they displace the phallic order of ones.
Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.
We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget - but the nuggets are the reward.
If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.
Thank you for tearing Tim into small Tim bits.
bushel of gold pieces;
The prosecutor have a problem distinguishing from megabits and megabytes.
Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.
When a task seems too daunting to even approach, break it up into little bits.
10,000 tiny particles shatter between us.
I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes all the same.
Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.
You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.
Did you know that a jiffy is an actual measurement of time? It's a sixtieth of a second.
Mind if I have a bite?
In a digitally connected world a byte of data can boost or bite your brand
The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.
Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.
A fortune begins with a penny.
People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.
A box of tacks - might actually be something less obvious: a box and tacks.
A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch."
Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know."
"It is a bit.
Googol?' 'That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.
If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.
To a great mind, nothing is little.
little things please great minds.
The number was: "2 B R 0 2 B.
I brug you two [gifts] ... I gots the little here in my pockie.' He dug one hand deep into his pocket and pulled out a handful of nuts and a dead grasshopper. 'Nope. Be the other side.' (Matt)
I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.
poking around in this dump, as it would be
Nubs?" the doctor asked. "It's okay," Charlie said. "He's our dog. He isn't a person or anything." "I would hope not." "Sometimes he eats his own poop," Charlie explained.
Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.
I am small, but sometimes I am a small part of great things.
Part. These elements, though small and insignificant to passersby, made up my girlhood,
Pennies saved one and two at a time
Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.
each second was a century
That's how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
Computers rely on the one and the zero to represent all things. This distinction between something and nothing - this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing - is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.
Advice, the smallest current coin.
Answer: 2 and 4 fleas. Go
Years into days.
Days into hours.
Hours into minutes.
Minutes into moments.
Moments into possibility.
A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.
This is Mr. Round."
"SHORT Round.
A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
Good things come in small packages.
A brick is ... ... ... Well it's a bloody brick what more do you want from me?
And the Bastard grant us ... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.
Programmers are Tiny Gods
Small things become small folks.
What a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!
It's a little blip. There's a tiny little blip in my belly. Tiny. Wow. I forget my discomfort as I stare dumbfounded at the blip ... The little blip is a baby. A real honest to goodness baby. Christian's baby. My baby. Holy cow. A baby! - Ana Grey
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