Quotes About Programmed

#1. Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

Claire Tomalin

#2. During times of scarcity at least, yes. This is one probable explanation for why most life on Earth, including ours, is programmed to die." Desh's

Douglas E. Richards

#3. 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

#4. I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.

Jeff Carlson

#5. I think too often we forget that girls can like sport; we are not biologically programmed to detest it, we are - in the main - conditioned against it. But shouldn't we try to change that?

Anna Kessel

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Programmed in self-hatred, many of us shadow-box the light of day away and chase everything meaningless the night through until we perish more ignorant and confused than the very day we were born.

D. Allen Miller

#10. 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

#11. To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#12. We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed ... We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.

Andrea Dworkin

#13. Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And hoped the jokers down in Maintenance hadn't played any pranks with the mechanism. Still, she was too tired to care if she ended up in Hoboken.

J.D. Robb

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. A program can only do what it's programmed to do, to the letter of the law. Unfortunately, what's written doesn't always coincide with what the programmer intended the program to do.

Anonymous

#17. As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.

Sigourney Weaver

#18. All these inexplicable events that have occurred in my life so far ... it's as though they were all ingeniously programmed from the start of bringing me here.

Haruki Murakami

#19. You watch the country-music awards that they show on the television, and you see country music has reached about 1985. It's all huge processed drum sounds and chiming chorus guitars and programmed synths bobbling along in the background.

Andy Partridge

#20. Because, we're evolutionarily programmed to over eat if possible.

Andrew Ferreira

#21. She went to the AutoChef, programmed a vitamin smoothie. And was shocked when that's exactly what she got.

J.D. Robb

#22. Middle school was what programmed me to be semi-insecure, like, all of the time. I didn't fit in ... .I'd stand on the outside of the circle but I was never really in. That's when I started to realize there's this thing called rejection.

Taylor Swift

#23. They programmed you with the best of intentions but unfortunately their best was mediocrity.

Maddy Malhotra

#24. God's covenant of grace in Scripture is one of those things that are too big to be easily seen, particularly when one's mind is programmed to look at something smaller.

J.I. Packer

#25. I predict we will abolish suffering throughout the living world. Our descendants will be animated by gradients of genetically pre-programmed well-being that are orders of magnitude richer than today's peak experiences.

David Pearce

#26. All human beings, all persons who reach adulthood in the world today are programmed biocomputers. No one of us can escape our own nature as programmable entities. Literally, each of us may be our programs, nothing more, nothing less.

John C. Lilly

#27. 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

#28. It is precisely our plasticity, our long childhood, that prevents a slavish adherence to genetically programmed behavior in human beings more than in any other species.

Carl Sagan

#29. A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.

Shawn Lukas

#30. 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

#31. I think that genetically we're programmed to battle each other.

Pierce Brosnan

#32. 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

#33. What's the meaning of life?"
"I have been programmed by Hexus to reply 'meatballs,'" it says.

Lydia Kang

#34. Leia experienced the vaguely guilty sensation that surfaced every time she realized that droid personalities were more than programmed conversational quirks. A computer core could be lonely. C-3PO could take pity on it.

Claudia Gray

#35. Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just ... programmed?

Marissa Meyer

#36. You don't believe all that crap, do you - that there's one way to look, and everyone is programmed to agree on it?

Scott Westerfeld

#37. Humanity is completely consumed with the pleasures of the flesh; we have been self-programmed to lose consciousness of the soul.

Felix Wantang

#38. That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

Chuck Palahniuk

#39. 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

#40. The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Joe Haldeman

#41. Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

Poul Anderson

#42. If the Devil is an evil computer, who the hell programmed it? Who is the Dr. Frankestein of this abominable character?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#43. A computer ... has no worth unless it is programmed ... The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.

Billy Graham

#44. Win or lose, I am programmed to do more. That's because I am the other son of Jorel - Superman.

Shaquille O'Neal

#45. We are psychologically programmed not only to nurture what we love but to love what we nurture.

Sherry Turkle

#46. Our brain is essentially programmed to enjoy carbohydrates because they give us a sense of fullness and a rush of pleasure. When people go on low-carb diets, they start to almost subconsciously experience distress from eating carbohydrates.

Charles Duhigg

#47. My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

Luke Bryan

#48. The complexities of life can never be untangled by man; like a sheep without a shepherd we have been self-programmed for destruction. Jesus Christ is the only way. Genesis 3:6 and John 14:6.

Felix Wantang

#49. Synthetic biology can help address key challenges facing the planet and its population. Research in synthetic biology may lead to new things such as programmed cells that self-assemble at the sites of disease to repair damage.

Craig Venter

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Soul mates are said to be two souls destined to be together, programmed to recognize each other across time and space. I didn't know whether that was the truth, but I was inclined to believe it

Jayde Scott

#55. Following a process is being programmed, living is doing it in other way.

Abdul Mueed

#56. 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 Lenz

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

Mariella Frostrup

#61. There are some people who you've got to stay away from. They can't help themselves; they are just genetically programmed to screw you over.

Mindy Quigley

#62. The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

Timothy Leary

#63. Trying to change someone is easier than trying to accept them It's how we're programmed

Katie Kacvinsky

#64. Everything he knew was a result of artificial intelligence. Manufactured data and memories. Programmed technology. A created life.

James Dashner

#65. 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

#66. The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased
replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.

Brian James

#67. Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.

Liz Jensen

#68. 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

#69. Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.

Bob Proctor

#70. It is impossible to control outcomes or results, although most of us have been programmed from a very young age to believe otherwise. The idea that we can perform actual 'magic' causes tremendous dysfunction, unnecessary suffering and prevents the development of emotional resilience.

Christopher Dines

#71. The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

Joel Bakan

#72. 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

#73. As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

Abby Wambach

#74. 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

#75. It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

Greta Van Susteren

#76. If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage as if it were God.

Richard Rohr

#77. Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it's much better evidence that our world was programmed by people much smarter than us.

Jordan Ellenberg

#78. I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

Jude Law

#79. HOLIDAY MEANS HOLIDAY; DON'T BE TEMPTED TO WORK ON YOUR WEEK OFF

FROM THE BOOK PROGRAMMED SHEEP

Lord M.A. Fricker

#80. Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

Antonio Damasio

#81. if you have a destination programmed into your subconscious you'll make the right decisions to take you in that general direction -

Chris Croft

#82. We live in a media soup and are constantly being programmed or are fighting that programming. Thus any truthful account of a life, every part of a life, is about society as well as an individual.

Marge Piercy

#83. We all eat two to six times a day. Why? Because we are supposed to, we are programmed to, we want to.

Grant Achatz

#84. One of the hardest ideas for humans to accept,' he says, 'is that we are not the culmination of anything. There is nothing inevitable about our being here. It is part of our vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.

Bill Bryson

#85. 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

#86. I'd trapped myself in a script ... But to be scripted at all is to be prepackaged, programmed, pinned to a page. Only the unwritten can truly live a life. So who I was, what I was, had to be unwritten.

David James Duncan

#87. just programmed into the bomb's guidance system. "Hey!" the copilot told the Delta operator. "We don't

Eric Blehm

#88. Iko was forced to bite her tongue, allowing her programmed instincts, the instincts she'd spent her life trying to keep buried while she learned about humor and sarcasm and affection, to keep her expressionless.

Marissa Meyer

#89. The week ahead is already programmed for fabulousness. Pray that your thinking be aligned with the force that makes it so.

Marianne Williamson

#90. We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

Erica Jong

#91. Live simply so that others may simply live was marvelously observed by St. Elizabeth Seton . If this simple truth could only be programmed into the human DNA, imagine the possibilities. Until than, the education of the human heart is the answer and our only hope.

Adam Kovacevic

#92. We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either by an automatic device ... or by a pre-programmed president who, whether he knows it or not, will be carrying out orders written years before by some operations analyst.

Herbert York

#93. When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.

Summer Sanders

#94. 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 M. Rorty

#95. If we scrutinize 100,000 pictures, it's not surprising that occasionally we'll come upon something like a face. With our brains programmed for this from infancy, it would be amazing if we couldn't find one here and there.

Carl Sagan

#96. I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.

Ashley Rickards

#97. Little by little, in subtle ways, you get programmed. You create beliefs that get cemented in your personality. You don't realize you are doing this, but you are. Your core, foundational beliefs about relationships, money, and success will all be programmed into you by the time you are 10 years old.

Randy Gage

#98. boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals - something

Neal Stephenson

#99. We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked for. It wasn't structured. It was just there. It was very raw. I don't think the industry would allow that to happen again.

Ben E. King

#100. The ten-minute period before you sleep and the ten-minute period after you wake up are profoundly influential on your subconscious mind. Only the most inspiring and serene thoughts should be programmed into your mind at those times.

Robin S. Sharma