Programmed Quotes

I’m so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day.

I think I was programmed to do good things when I came into the majors. I knew how to play.

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

My dad programmed me to be aggressive as a young player. He always told me to go to the rim. Live in the paint.

Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex – and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.

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.

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

Frankenstein’ was more programmed, but ‘Dracula’ we did as it came along because at the beginning we weren’t sure how it was going to end – it wasn’t written in the script.

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.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it’s like every young black boy people would see say ‘what sport do you play?’ instead of just asking ‘what do you do?’ ‘What are you interested in?’

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.

I can’t write at night. For me, I’m programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

I never want to play a show where it feels overly programmed, processed, and all that. For anybody that comes to one of our shows, the goal for me is to make sure that’s their show. That nobody else is going to see that show ever again. You know what I mean? I try to make it different every day.

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

When a child knows that he or she is dyslexic, that it’s the way their brain is programmed, and it’s not their fault, that makes all the difference in the world.

We have to be very cognizant of the fact that 90 percent of the electronic media in this country is owned, operated, programmed, and controlled by conservatives. They made a concerted effort during and before the Reagan years that they were going to get the microphone.

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.

Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

Radio is so heavily programmed; you have to fit into a certain box. So it’s harder for anything different to get through.

Making games look more photorealistic is not the only means of improving the game experience. I know, on this point, I risk being misunderstood, so remember, I am a man who once programmed a baseball game with no baseball players. If anyone appreciates graphics, it’s me!

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.

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

Bitcoin can be programmed, metered, and exchanged by connected devices, enabling more efficient usage of our planet’s resources and services.

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?

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.

How does the subconscious mind work? Is it independent of the conscious mind? Is it programmed by experiences or instructions? Many questions come up, but the one answer is common: if you can access the subconscious, then you can reprogram it, period!

I think we are all programmed to please as we grow up.

The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

My brain has been programmed to listen to music a certain way because of the Beatles.

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.

Too often, we are being programmed by the environment around us to behave differently. But I think a true leader is an authentic person who feels good about who he is.

I programmed computers every day. And one of my favourite apps we built was this thing called Awesome Updater, that all it did is send you a tweet randomly that was like, ‘Yo, you’re awesome.’

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understanding of the nuances. And in a way, that was a bad thing. Because it kind of programmed me to believe that if you’re going have a restaurant, this is what you need to do, and this is the way it’s going to be run.

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.

A guitar being played by an actual person is never going to be as precise and perfect as a programmed synthesizer. But we maintain there is value in the potential for human error.

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.

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.

Everyone is born with it but, unfortunately, our society and culture are programmed to kill creativity.

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.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you’re talking about an actor’s TV series, you say, ‘I loved you last night.’ And they go, ‘What about the week before?’ They immediately worry.

I say ‘incantation’ a lot, when what I really mean ‘incarnation.’ It’s a programmed mistake.

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.

We’ve been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways.

Arcade-game characters have no free will. They’re programmed to do one thing day in and day out – they don’t have a choice in the matter.

That’s all I’m programmed for: to keep pushing and to try to make the most of my career and my life, to take care of my family.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.

At an early age, somehow we’re programmed to view other females as threats.

It was a big change for me not to go into the weight room and train like a football player – I’d been programmed my whole life to go in and make myself stronger so that I could push people around.

Part of the mystique of shows like ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ is the idea that they begin with a couple of plot lines, and then a bunch of geniuses improvise dialogue. It’s not quite that unstructured and loose. It makes for a good urban myth, but everything’s a little more tightly scripted and programmed than that.