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Programmes like the BES are what make the difference between a good university & one that is truly outstanding. I believe this programme will be invaluable for the future sustainability of Singapore and the region; perhaps even the world, if others follow our lead. -- Geh Min
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms. -- Kate Bush
Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come. -- Armando Iannucci
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. -- David Attenborough
To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. -- David Attenborough
I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries. -- Adora Svitak
Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before. -- Robert D. Hare
The Washington leadership has put aside non-proliferation programmes and devoted its energies and resources to driving the country to war by extraordinary deceit, then trying to manage the catastrophe it created in Iraq. -- Noam Chomsky
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations. -- Malcolm Fraser
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. -- David Attenborough
What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well. -- Henry Mintzberg
First, I was a glacial blonde doing music programmes. Then I was the film kind of sexy bird late at night. It was frustrating like I guess it's frustrating for everyone who is not fully employing their talents. -- Mariella Frostrup
True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it. -- Ban Ki-moon
There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes. -- Michael Palin
Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help. -- Malcolm Fraser
Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner. -- Pratibha Patil
It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme. -- Martin Rees
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes. -- Kerry Washington
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms. -- Ban Ki-moon
My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes. -- Salma Hayek
We design our own programmes; we take leadership. Of course the donors come in to support us, to complement our efforts. Our responsibility to the donors is about accountability: about how we use that money. If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money. -- Jakaya Kikwete
The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success. -- Julian Baggini
Richard Branson once said: 'Tony's very good at selling bands and he's very good at making television programmes. But he'll never be great at either, until he decides which one he wants to do.' I entirely accept that. That doesn't matter to me very much. I like the irony of the two lives. -- Tony Wilson
We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse. -- David Attenborough
I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels. -- Mithun Chakraborty
I love cookery programmes. -- Cilla Black
I shall continue to invent new anti-slavery programmes around the world. -- David Batstone
The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs? -- David Attenborough
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic. -- Imre Lakatos
Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves -- John Bright
In degenerating programmes, however, theories are fabricated only in order to accommodate known facts -- Imre Lakatos
All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification. -- Ban Ki-moon
I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake. -- Subhash Chandra
TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes. -- Steve Fowler
I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure. -- Amy Childs
I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes. -- Tony Blair
I don't like celebrity programmes - but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve. -- Brian Eno
I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes. -- John Major
Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time. -- Eric Bristow
I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes. -- Jill Dando
I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes. -- Martin Parr
Macroeconomic adjustment programmes are tailor-made to the situation of the country concerned and no models or templates are used. -- Jeroen Dijsselbloem
There are only a handful of really good TV programmes, and I'm blessed to be in one of them. -- Peter Capaldi
Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is. -- Billy Connolly
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes. -- Nigel Rees
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better. -- Clayton M. Christensen
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. -- George Osborne
I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that. -- Martin Freeman
When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald. -- Gail Porter
When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes. -- Harold E. Varmus
Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes? -- Bryan Cranston
I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly. -- Jonathan Dimbleby
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner. -- Claire Tomalin
A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing. -- Victoria Wood
A number of immunisation programmes are funded and announced by the government and international bodies, but little thought goes into the injecting or delivery mechanism. -- Marc Koska
Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud. -- Narendra Modi
That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it. -- M.C. Beaton
What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation. -- John Prescott
In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues. -- Kofi Annan
Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support. -- Carol Bellamy
One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test. -- Henry Spencer
We have to argue forcefully and demand that the government recognise that these programmes do not prevent - mass surveillance does not prevent acts of terrorism. -- Edward Snowden
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. -- David Attenborough
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. -- Lesley Garrett
We have already seen some instances of systemic risk in recent times in the Asian financial crisis. But what sparked off the Asian financial crisis? Automated trading programmes! -- Paul Virilio
I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors. -- O. R. Melling
Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture. -- Andy Goldsworthy
The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s. -- Edmund Phelps
After the war, I went to the BBC monitoring service in Caversham, a suburb of Reading. It was a big aerial system to listen to radio programmes all over the world. -- Michael Bond
Imams must ridicule Caliphate fantasies. Exchange programmes between Muslim-only schools and non-Muslim-majority schools should be initiated. Community-based debates around these themes must no longer be shut down from fear of offence. -- Maajid Nawaz
NATO has a special relationship with countries far away from Europe: Australia, Japan, South Korea. They have joint projects and programmes which are being implemented without these countries becoming members of NATO. -- Sergei Lavrov
Nobody wants to remain poor. Those who are poor want to move away from poverty. That is why, all our programmes must be for the poor. All our schemes must serve the poor. -- Narendra Modi
When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries. -- Amy Childs
Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.' -- Robert Winston
Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. -- Richard Flanagan

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