Top 60 Programmed Quotes

Extensive analysis was conducted before deciding whether consumers would respond better to a male or female imprisoned in their phone. Almost every country in the world had a female Siri programmed – but not, initially, in the UK and France.

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.

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

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Computers were programmed to swap out error-prone, inconsistent human calculation with digital perfection.

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.

I think that genetically we’re programmed to battle each other.

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 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.

There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I’m more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.

Synthesizers can be programmed with more imagination than a real, ‘human’ performance. It’s a joyful thing.

I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: ‘What’s the meaning of life? What if I don’t like this job I’ve been programmed to do?’

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

In short, humans are programmed to get bored.

I really don’t chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I’m pretty much programmed to do it.

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.

A guy threw a stone at my head when I was eight. I told my nan, and she said, ‘Get a bigger stone.’ That’s what I got programmed into me. And sometimes I find it a struggle to get it out of me.

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

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

Ideally, the music composed these days should sound much better because of the technology, right? But that’s not the fact. The sounds that you hear out of technological recording are programmed sounds coming out of a computer.

As much as you act like everything is programmed or calculated or researched or numbers, spins, radio, and clubs, it’s still human beings out here you can reach with music.

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.

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.

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.

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?’

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.

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.

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.

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.

People are still programmed to think that if your child doesn’t get straight As, get A-levels and go to a Russell Group university, that somehow they are not going to achieve in life. I think that’s sad.

I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one.

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.

All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits.

I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I’ve just been programmed to think like a girl.

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.

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.

There have been times I’ve said a few things in anger when we’ve lost. But it’s just how I’m programmed. I want to win.

Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order.

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.

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

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.

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!

If I had done what I was programmed to do, I would now be sitting in a car factory looking at the sizes of wheels, or wondering how to get credit to start a new factory in Russia.

We’re programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it’s done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It’s just that our perception of it isn’t.