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Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet. -- Seth Lloyd
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain. -- Abby Wambach
I can't write at night. For me, I'm programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation. -- Diablo Cody
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. -- Isaac Asimov
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. -- John Searle
Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex. -- Joshua Foer
Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah. -- Mark Morris
When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again. -- Richard Rohr
Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. -- Audre Lorde
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. -- Germaine Greer
Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics. -- John P. Kotter
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media. -- Dennis Prager
I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform. -- John Stamos
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. -- Marshall McLuhan
I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone. -- Steve Carell
Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this. -- Roy Lichtenstein
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. -- Richard Rorty
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact. -- David A. Bednar
The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding the commercials are there to help sell things. And that TV shows are there to sell commercials, and so on. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that. -- R. Kelly
I've always loved the mixture of crushing live drums with a programmed groove, that really cool blend, like in the verse there's a really funky drum beat that is programmed then it comes in to the chorus; you've got that enormous human feel where the band kicks in. -- Tommy Lee
Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think. -- David Attenborough
Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed. -- John C. McGinley
You know, we humans are programmed to think that big changes on the Earth happened a long time ago, or will happen a long time in the future. What we don't realize is that they actually can happen right now. Right here, right now, while we're alive, in our own hours and days and months and years. -- James Balog
You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture. -- Joe Rogan
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations. -- David Icke
Man is programmed to find the programmer. -- Kedar Joshi
We are being programmed by mental pygmies. -- Howard Hesseman
We are not programmed to bury our kids. -- Eric Holder
In short, humans are programmed to get bored. -- Emily Oster
I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person. -- Rainbow Rowell
Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult. -- Bruce Kent
It's like the human race has been programmed for misery. -- Tom Perrotta
Learning from programmed information always hides reality behind a screen. -- Ivan Illich
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do. -- Vint Cerf
The computer would do anything you programmed it to do. -- Vint Cerf
I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old. -- Oleg Cassini
Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find. -- Poul Anderson
Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts. -- Marianne Williamson
We are programmed to succeed from birth but we deprogram ourselves with beliefs -- Daniel Marques
Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. -- Jeane Dixon
Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do. -- Liz Jensen
We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind. -- Mariella Frostrup
The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit. -- Joel Bakan
The body is a survival machine programmed to propagate the genes that reside inside it. -- Richard Dawkins
A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him. -- Michael Stipe
Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything. -- Jane Goodall
I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed. -- Jude Law
I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day. -- Rachel Stevens
As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine. -- Sigourney Weaver
That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed? -- Marissa Meyer
And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function. -- Lily Allen
It's hard to reach [the age of] 100. We're not programmed for longevity. We are programmed for something called procreative success. -- Dan Buettner
Humanity is completely consumed with the pleasures of the flesh; we have been self-programmed to lose consciousness of the soul. -- Felix Wantang
I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play. -- Willie Mays
It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents. -- Sara Zarr
A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory. -- Shawn Lukas
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We are programmed by our past beliefs, which we inherited from our parents, our cultural traditions sometimes, and our social conditioning. -- Deepak Chopra
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out. -- Doris Lessing
The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death. -- Esther Hicks
If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character? -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so. -- Marianne Williamson
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different. -- Beryl Bainbridge
If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff. -- Jennifer Aniston
I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that. -- Avicii
We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to. -- Grant Achatz
We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways. -- Christian Serratos
All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits. -- Richard Axel
Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life. -- Bob Newhart
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing -- John Searle
Muhammad aware of what to look for and he handled it on his own. He did his own thing. I never programmed him. -- Angelo Dundee
We are programmed; we are literally programmed genetically and then we are programmed environmentally and most people never break out of that programming. -- Bob Proctor
The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it. -- Marianne Williamson
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray. -- Michael Ignatieff
You are being programmed all day, every day. You can't stop it, but you can determine if the programming is positive or negative. -- Randy Gage
You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly. -- Scott Westerfeld
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world. -- Stephen Batchelor
We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. -- Ray Kurzweil
Thanks to big data, machines can now be programmed to do the next thing right. But only humans can do the next right thing. -- Dov Seidman
People will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. -- David Bowie
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something. -- Steven Hatfill
Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there. -- Zach Braff
We are survival machines "? robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment. -- Richard Dawkins
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines show us the way. -- Bill Gates
Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends. -- Kofi Annan
If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul. -- Lewis Mumford
The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man's need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him. -- Josh Lanyon
There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements. -- Michael Jackson
The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for not giving total effort at the job. -- Indra Nooyi
I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed. -- Cameron Crowe
There seems little doubt that sophisticated techniques have now reached the stage where, if murder is desired, a killer, once programmed and 'on hold', can be triggered into action. -- Sirhan Sirhan
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain. -- Scott Westerfeld
I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long. -- Krishna Das
We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it... -- Neil Strauss
Everyone can make scrambled eggs, Remy. It's programmed into you at birth, the default setting. Like being able to swim and knowing not to mix pickles with oatmeal. You just know. -- Sarah Dessen
I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed. -- Terry Bozzio
Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's (Coltrane) to speak in Turkish. -- Daniel Radcliffe
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period. -- Huey Lewis
My art practice eventually arrived at a point where I had freedom from various limiting conditions; the institutional mindset is not airtight and isn't altogether ideologically programmed. There are ways of escaping. -- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence? -- Tony Gilroy
If the extrovert is trying to "cheer up" the introvert - extroverts are programmed to seek social rewards! - he or she may feel like a failure if the introvert remains unmoved. -- Laurie Helgoe
So when it comes to circadian rhythms, it's a clock that's basically programmed in our body. So if you think back to times when people lived on farms and we didn't have electricity. -- Shelby Harris
The reason we have such a difficult time losing weight permanently is not because we are making bad choices, but because we are not stopping our automatic subconscious programmed behaviors in their tracks. -- Elaine Moran
I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe. -- John Trudell
We will destroy you," the Flyboys droned. "You have no escape." That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these 'droids to say? "Talk about lame," Fang muttered. -- James Patterson
A complex is a cluster of energy in the unconscious, charged by historic events, reinforced through repitition, embodying a fragment of our personality, and generating a programmed response and an implicit set of expectations. -- Carl Jung
Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you. -- Jack Kornfield
You have been programmed, brainwashed to see life in very specific forms. Life is endless and we are a body of perception. We are an awareness that is endless. The universe is only perception. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It's easy to make women happier and busier. How? Buy her a talking mirror beside bitching it has to be programmed to say, "You are looking very beautiful and slimmer," at precisely every hour. -- Megha Khare
I know how you feel. But people can't surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth... I was made to destroy. -- Charles Lee
I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me... -- Clay Regazzoni
In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy". -- Kenny Werner
The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're about as free to act as a programmed computer. You're about as one-of-a-kind as a dollar bill. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I truly believe that many of the fears we have are unnecessary. It is something we've been taught. It has been programmed into us. It's just a habitual thinking pattern, and it can be changed. -- Louise Hay

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