Programmed Quotations

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

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

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.

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.

If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.

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.

Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.

Shoppers are programmed to hunt for bargains. If we are moving stock around the store on a rack rail it won't be long before people start rifling through the clothes looking for special offers, even if there's no 'sale' sign. People associate things in boxes or things hanging on rails in no particular order with sale stock or bargains. They like to think they've scored something brand-new or something discounted.

Shoppers are programmed to hunt for bargains, ... If we are moving stock around the store on a rack rail it won't be long before people start rifling through the clothes looking for special offers, even if there's no 'sale' sign. People associate things in boxes or things hanging on rails in no particular order with sale stock or bargains. They like to think they've scored something brand-new or something discounted.

Single-camera work is very difficult. It's one of the reasons I wanted to do it - it's an arena I'm not that skilled at. 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.

Millions of people enjoy the programmed content that MSN.com offers and we will continue to deliver that experience, ... Users also want more flexibility in creating a personalized experience with access to customized content and communications. That's what Windows Live delivers.

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

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.

He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him. He has a much more easygoing attitude toward the world than I ever knew him to have.

I was afraid of my own fear. I was afraid of not being able to stand it. Everything is programmed to undo you as a human being.

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.

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.

It is entirely conceivable that this virus is inherently programmed that it will never be able to go efficiently from human to human. Hopefully the epidemic (in birds) will burn itself out, which epidemics do, before the virus evolves the capability of being more efficient in going from human to human.

We can't look at this as a media property. This is a site programmed by its users.

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.

Today's cars have computers that are all set up and programmed for the different grades of gas. All the sensors are reading different things to make the car run better.

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

With the addition of 60 MINUTES video to Yahoo!, our users will have access to one of the most respected news franchises, programmed and edited with Yahoo!'s audience in mind. We're focused on creating an experience that gives users a complete picture of the stories and issues important to them.

We had some activity in March, and based on that we took it off the deferred list and were working on getting it programmed for repair. We were getting ready to do some remedial design work, and it was scheduled to be built in the spring.

Even if you play a villain, you do an injustice to him if he's just, like, programmed to do those things. It's always more complex.

Even killers recognize that some people are sort of programmed to do mayhem.

At the beginning when it's first being run over in practice, it's a little confusing. After a few days of running through it at full speed, then it becomes pretty routine. It's kind of like muscle memory. It just gets programmed in your head.

And when I started, I also programmed the drum machines with the intention of taking them off and replacing them with acoustic drums.

The Sheriffs Department are on low band and can be accessed in that trailer, and high band could've been programmed come to find out it's being used as a phone center at MEMA that broke my heart.

The Three Stooges theme song is programmed into my cell phone when he calls, if that tells you anything.

The spacecraft has been programmed to continue even in the event of an emergency. We don't want Cassini to call home if a problem arises, we want it to keep going.

programmed and scripted to stay away from controversy.

Our estimate of $25 million for the project is one we are fairly comfortable with. We can't enter into an agreement for anything other than what we have programmed for construction in fiscal year 2011. So that's what we would enter into with the county.

One guy whose phone was programmed for the theme song from 'The Sting' was getting calls every five minutes. We couldn't figure out which phone it was to turn it off.

This guy's wired. This guy's infrastructure is one that allows him to play a lot. That's how he's programmed and we're going to ride him as long as we can.

There will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities-until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a PLANNED Marxist economy and total and meek ENSLAVEMENT-in the name of PEACE.

They programmed him so hard. God, they wanted him to get to that NBA.

It's not only getting them programmed into all the computer graphics equipment, but having the (announcers) analyze them, having our research staff analyze them.

The obesity epidemic in the U.S. can be largely explained by our inactive, over-indulgent lifestyle behaviors. It is possible that viruses may play a role in setting us up for becoming overweight, similar to how our genes may be programmed to lead to obesity under the right circumstances.

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.

It will be programmed by music fans for music fans. Subscribers will tell us what sucks.

The sensor is programmed so that when a vibration of a certain frequency increases, it can respond. For example, it could shut down to protect the system, or turn on a light that warns the user that the motor should be inspected or replaced within a certain interval of time. This would enable the efficient replacement of a motor instead of waiting for it to blow.

By 2010, ... it could be possible to tell a system you want a word-processor with particular features and it will be programmed for you automatically.

The Kemah Boardwalk draws 4 million visitors a year to this once-sleepy town on Galveston Bay near Houston. In addition to showcasing overpriced, tourist-oriented restaurants, the boardwalk also includes amusement rides, shops, an unpredictably programmed water-jet fountain (a definite kid favorite), and a surprisingly nice boutique hotel called the Boardwalk Inn.

This is a classic Internet company and they will be burning cash like there's no tomorrow. But the deal is programmed to explode on its first day with 3.5 million shares priced between $12 and $14.

The influx of e-mail never stops, particularly in a global economy, ... You could always check e-mail. And people are still programmed to wait for things to calm down in order to do proactive stuff: 'When it quiets down, when I get through this flood, this batch, these to-dos, I will get proactive.' But there never is a quiet time.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.