#programmed

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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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

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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? ↗

— Tony Gilroy

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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

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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

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Some people are genetically programmed to be difficult. ↗

— Bruce Kent

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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. ↗

— John Searle

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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. ↗

— John Stamos

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

— Michael Stipe

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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

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