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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

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

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.

Alan Bennett

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.

Robert Mitchell

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

Isaac Asimov

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

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.

Raul Rivero

It is also able to make prostate cancer cells undergo apoptosis -- programmed cell death -- and the mechanism for that, we don't know.

Hasan Mukhtar

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.

Debbie Tower

If you suppress free radicals, you suppress programmed cell death.

Rudolph Salganik

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

Nolan Richardson

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.

Bruce Patterson

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

Jeane Dixon

Men are often ashamed to admit problems because they might lose the respect of friends and colleagues. They are programmed to take care of their families, even at the sacrifice of their own health.

Ken Berringer

Christopher Guthrie (an actor who appears in many Know Theatre productions) has come aboard as artistic associate. He is going to be assisting me in terms of how we are going to keep this place programmed.

Jason Bruffy

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.

Barry Pepper

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.

Brody Taylor

Basically we have a tiny little gland in the middle of our brains that controls when we sleep and when we are awake as well as many other things. And many of us are programmed, as it were, to either be night owls (want to go to sleep late) or larks, where we want to go to bed early.

Dr. Meir Kryger

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.

Jim Baker

We're all programmed to celebrate variety. Even Californians complain of constant unchanging good weather.

Dr. Michael Bernstein

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 Rorty

The changes in any kind of technology based business over even the last 10 years are astronomical. The computer does an awesome job of playing the music back, it has to be programmed very well to make it all come together.

Chris Talbot

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.

Eric Mann

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.

Elaine Kamarck