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Quotes About Programmed

I don't engage in murdering sentients for commerce," I said. "Case closed." "You're programmed not to," she admitted. "That's not ethics. I want to know the real you." There was a pause while she examined her fingernails. "Unless you're afraid of what you'll learn.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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
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.
~ Summer Sanders
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.
~ H. Robert Horvitz
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth that still fills me with astonishment. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
~ Matt Ridley
Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it's much better evidence that our world was programmed by people much smarter than us.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man's need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him.
~ Josh Lanyon
You are born with the kingdom laws programmed into your being
~ Sunday Adelaja
vanity as humans that we tend to think of evolution as a process that, in effect, was programmed to produce us.
~ Bill Bryson
I'm horrible at quoting movies! Even my very favorites are not easily recalled or programmed to memory. When people start movie quoting around me, I'm that person who just smiles and then looks up the reference later.
~ Ashley Rickards
The deity had the light, melodramatic voice of an artificial being programmed by a religious fanatic.
~ Storm Constantine
Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.
~ James Patterson
Maybe they are militaristic, overly programmed, and somewhat lacking in a sense of humor.
~ Suzanne Collins
my spirit was programmed to abundance.
~ Charles Capps
Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And hoped the jokers down in Maintenance hadn't played any pranks with the mechanism. Still, she was too tired to care if she ended up in Hoboken.
~ J.D. Robb
senses. Rather than trust her reflexes, she programmed for auto. And
~ J.D. Robb
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.
~ Sara Pascoe
The Selfish Gene—he set off decades of debate by declaring: "We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.
~ James Gleick
Ben ÅŸiddeti göz ard? etmeye programlanm??, duygusuz bir laboratuvar hayvan? deÄŸilim ama o anda akl?ma ilk olarak kan lekesinin üzerine soda sürmek için çok geç kal?nmam?? olabileceÄŸi geliyor.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Jelly had no brain per se but was in essence all brain, a shared consciousness programmed for desire. He had an appetite for everything, voraciously absorbing the culture that surrounded him and becoming it, only louder. In other words, he was extremely teenaged.
~ Larry Doyle
We will destroy you," the Flyboys droned. "You have no escape." That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed these 'droids to say? "Talk about lame," Fang muttered.
~ James Patterson
Sometimes he seems like a droid--or a drone. Fang of Nine. Fang2-D2.
~ James Patterson
Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.
~ James Patterson
They . . . are . . . so. . . sorry, " she whispered. "The machine brings back no . . . pictures . . . only the food and air and water. It is programmed . . . as you suggested, Dem Lia . . . to eliminate infestations. They are . . . so . . . so . . . sorry for the loss of Ouster life. They offer the suicide of . . . of their species . . . if it would atone for the destruction.
~ Dan Simmons