Quotes about program
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John Conyers photo

“I’m not here to tell you my troubles with the administration or — I’m happy to be on the program, because I’ve already read 96 percent of the book, and we’re investigating, but for me to start telling you what might be available and what the problems are and what the challenges are going to be, I think, is very unprofessional in an investigation of this seriousness… It’s under investigation and consideration right now. But the importance of this discussion today is critical not only to the committees — there are four committees, and how they relate to each other will come forward very shortly — but there is also the question of the media, the Fourth Estate, the press. This is now public information that, it seems to me, shouldn’t be great breaking news over a progressive news program, but this has to be investigated by the rest of the media, unless they consider this to be irrelevant or too late, or whatever reasons are, that they’re coerced or afraid themselves, too timid… I consider the relationship of the committees on the subject matter, the responsibility of the media, and the American people being brought into this discussion as the citizens, that in a representative democracy, that’s what all of us are supposed to be working on.”

John Conyers (1929–2019) American politician from Michigan

After Ron Suskind Reveals Bush Admin Ordered Iraq-9/11 Fakery, House Judiciary Chair John Conyers Opens Congressional Probe https://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/14/after_ron_suskind_reveals_bush_admin, DemocracyNow! (14 August 2008)

Annie Dillard photo
Vikram Sarabhai photo
James Eastland photo
Vasyl Slipak photo
Ilana Mercer photo

“If regular visits with prostitutes kept the political class from launching trillion-dollar war- and welfare programs, and financing Fanny, Freddy and the Fed—I would personally contribute to a prostitution fund for Washington whores. The prostitutes would be the patriots.”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

“Uncle Sam turns tricks (& stiffs sex workers),” http://www.ilanamercer.com/phprunner/public_article_list_view.php?editid1=650 RT, May 11, 2012.
2010s, 2012

Orson Scott Card photo

“Did they program brattiness into you?”

“That’s a trait I developed for myself,” she said. “Do you like it?”
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Ender's Game series, First Meetings in the Enderverse (2003), Investment Counselor

Edsger W. Dijkstra photo

“Don't blame me for the fact that competent programming, as I view it as an intellectual possibility, will be too difficult for "the average programmer"”

Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist

you must not fall into the trap of rejecting a surgical technique because it is beyond the capabilities of the barber in his shop around the corner.
Dijkstra (1975) Comments at a Symposium http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD05xx/EWD512.html (EWD 512).
1970s

Joseph Weizenbaum photo
Daniel Abraham photo

“Computers, it seemed, could be programmed to do almost anything but sense when someone was up to no good.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 7 (p. 76)

Jaroslav Kvapil photo

“The program of our nation is given by its history and by its racial individuality, by its modern political life and by its rights and by all that which gave rise to these rights and solemnly guaranteed them.”

The Bohemian Review, Volume 1, p.5
Address of Bohemian Authors to the Parliamentary Representatives of the Bohemian People (Manifesto of Czech writers)

Marilyn Ferguson photo

“The Trump administration has, for good measure, rewritten the eligibility rules for such programs in order to lower the number of people who qualify. The supposed goal: to cut costs by reducing dependence on government.”

Rajan Menon (1953) political scientist

Never mind the subsidies and tax loopholes Trump’s crew has created for corporations and the super wealthy, which add up to many billions of dollars in spending and lost revenue.
Trump’s War on the Poor Includes Our Children (February 4, 2020)

William Blum photo
Tony Abbott photo

“Well, there is no doubt that (homosexuality) challenges, if you like, orthodox notions of the right order of things, but as I also said on the program, it happens, it's a fact of life and we have to treat people as we find them.”

Tony Abbott (1957) Australian politician

Leigh Sales interview https://www.abc.net.au/lateline/abbott-defends-fair-parental-leave-plan/356710; on Lateline, ABC TV, 8 Mar 2010.
Leader of the Opposition (2009-2015)

David Pearce (philosopher) photo
David Pearce (philosopher) photo
Arthur C. Clarke photo

“The danger of asteroid or comet impact is one of the best reasons for getting into space … I'm very fond of quoting my friend Larry Niven: "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!"”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

"Meeting of the Minds : Buzz Aldrin Visits Arthur C. Clarke" by Andrew Chaikin (27 February 2001) http://web.archive.org/web/20010302082528/http://www.space.com/peopleinterviews/aldrin_clarke_010227.html
2000s and posthumous publications

Ursula K. Le Guin photo
Michio Kaku photo

“Killer asteroids are nature's way of asking, 'How's that space program coming along?'”

Anonymous

Headline quote at the beginning of Chapter 3, "Mining the Heavens," page 54.
The Future of Humanity (2018)

Dorothy Thompson photo

“Thus, the Communists program for agriculture, universal for all countries, would expropriate entirely all farmers living above subsistence or its margin, who are eventually to be collectivized.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

Source: "Let the Record Speak" 1939, “The Truth about Communism” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015051180423&view=1up&seq=5 (1948), p. 12

Dorothy Thompson photo

“The communist theory is that a world war is inevitable; that in that war, if they play their cards well, the democracies will be lined up against the fascist dictatorships, and that the result of the war will be the triumph of Communism all over the world. Their chief program now is to get the democracies so lined up.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster

Dorothy Thompson’s Political Guide: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
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John F. Kennedy photo
John F. Kennedy photo
John F. Kennedy photo
John F. Kennedy photo
John F. Kennedy photo

“This Administration has been looking hard at exactly what civil defense can and cannot do. It cannot be obtained cheaply. It cannot give an assurance of blast protection that will be proof against surprise attack or guaranteed against obsolescence or destruction. And it cannot deter a nuclear attack. We will deter an enemy from making a nuclear attack only if our retaliatory power is so strong and so invulnerable that he knows he would be destroyed by our response. If we have that strength, civil defense is not needed to deter an attack. If we should ever lack it, civil defense would not be an adequate substitute. But this deterrent concept assumes rational calculations by rational men. And the history of this planet, and particularly the history of the 20th century, is sufficient to remind us of the possibilities of an irrational attack, a miscalculation, an accidental war, for a war of escalation in which the stakes by each side gradually increase to the point of maximum danger which cannot be either foreseen or deterred. It is on this basis that civil defense can be readily justifiable--as insurance for the civilian population in case of an enemy miscalculation. It is insurance we trust will never be needed--but insurance which we could never forgive ourselves for foregoing in the event of catastrophe. Once the validity of this concept is recognized, there is no point in delaying the initiation of a nation-wide long-range program of identifying present fallout shelter capacity and providing shelter in new and existing structures. Such a program would protect millions of people against the hazards of radioactive fallout in the event of large-scale nuclear attack. Effective performance of the entire program not only requires new legislative authority and more funds, but also sound organizational arrangements.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Source: 1961, Speech to Special Joint Session of Congress

John F. Kennedy photo
Nagin Cox photo
Stephen Wolfram photo

“If you think about things that happen, as being computations... a computation in the sense that it has definite rules... You follow them many steps and you get some result. ...If you look at all these different computations that can happen, whether... in the natural world... in our brains... in our mathematics, whatever else, the big question is how do these computations compare. ...Are there dumb ...and smart computations, or are they somehow all equivalent? ...[T]he thing that I ...was ...surprised to realize from ...experiments ...in the early 90s, and now we have tons more evidence for ...[is] this ...principle of computational equivalence, which basically says that when one of these computations ...doesn't seem like it's doing something obviously simple, then it has reached this ...equivalent layer of computational sophistication of everything. So what does that mean? ...You might say that ...I'm studying this tiny little program ...and my brain is surely much smarter ...I'm going to be able to systematically outrun [it] because I have a more sophisticated computation ...but ...the principle ...says ...that doesn't work. Our brains are doing computations that are exactly equivalent to the kinds of computations that are being done in all these other sorts of systems. ...It means that we can't systematically outrun these systems. These systems are computationally irreducible in the sense that there's no ...shortcut ...that jumps to the answer.”

Stephen Wolfram (1959) British-American computer scientist, mathematician, physicist, writer and businessman

Stephen Wolfram: Fundamental Theory of Physics, Life, and the Universe (Sep 15, 2020)

Prevale photo

“True feeling doesn't program any moment or know time. Born from the heart, the only author of its evolution.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Il vero sentimento non programma alcun momento né conosce tempo. Nasce dal cuore, unico autore della sua evoluzione.
Source: prevale.net

Tom Crean (basketball coach) photo

“We have a responsibility to CARE. Thank God we’re at a place that has the tradition of this program.”

Tom Crean (basketball coach) (1966) American college basketball coach

Using the acronym CARE for "Coach Attitude and Respect Everyday", in "Crean on : rebuilding the tradition of Indiana basketball" by David Burkart in IUplanet Newsletter (7 October 2007)

Tom Crean (basketball coach) photo
Trevor Noah photo
John B. Calhoun photo
Edsger W. Dijkstra photo

“Some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes.”

Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist

Dijkstra (1976-79) On the foolishness of "natural language programming" https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html (EWD 667)
1970s

Donald J. Trump photo

“We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2020, June 2020

Prevale photo

“In order for a kiss not to be forgotten, it must never be programmed.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) ​Affinché un bacio non venga dimenticato, non deve essere mai programmato.
Source: prevale.net

Joe Armstrong photo

“The inability to isolate software components from each other is the main reason why many popular programming languages cannot be used for making robust system software.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

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Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of Software Errors

Joe Armstrong photo

“Bad concurrency model, I think, is something that make a lot of programming artificially difficult.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

Faults, Scaling and Erlang concurrency

Joe Armstrong photo

“Many programs don’t have well-defined interface. They should have.”

Joe Armstrong (1950–2019) British computer scientist

The forgotten advantage of concurrent programming

Joe Armstrong photo
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex photo

“Paid leave should be a national right, rather than a patchwork option limited to those whose employers have policies in place, or those who live in one of the few states where a leave program exists”

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981) American former actress and member by marriage of the British royal family

Source: In a letter to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi " Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, urges Schumer and Pelosi to pass federal paid family leave https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/politics/meghan-duchess-of-sussex-paid-family-leave/index.html" (October 21, 2021)

João Goulart photo

“Agrarian reform is not the whim of a government or the program of a party. It is the product of the pressing need of all the peoples of the world...”

João Goulart (1918–1976) 24th President of Brazil

Source: João Goulart. Discursos Selecionados do Presidente João Goulart, 2010, FUNAG, 978-85-7631-193-5, 85, pt-br http://funag.gov.br/loja/download/641-Discursos_joao_goulart.pdf,

George Vella photo

“My appeal is to respect the people's intelligence and to put before them clear and unequivocal working programs and policies that will be implemented if (I am) chosen to lead the country in the upcoming general election.”

George Vella (1942) Maltese politician

Source: George Vella (2021) cited in " President urges politicians to 'respect people's intelligence' https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/president-urges-politicians-to-respect-peoples-intelligence.921130" on Times of Malta, 13 December 2021.

Ire Aderinokun photo

“I find programming itself incredibly creative and fulfilling.”

Ire Aderinokun (1991) Nigerian front end developer

Source: https://guardian.ng/life/ire-aderinokun-the-inspiring-tech-queen/ Aderinokun Speaking on what she finds creative about her career.

Robinah Nabbanja photo

“Don't make a mistake to vote for opposition candidates who sole aim is opposing government programs. This will mean that you won't receive the services you deserve.”

Robinah Nabbanja (1969) Ugandan politician and teacher

Source: Robinah Nabbanja (2021) cited in " Uganda: PM Nabbanja Stings "Unreliable" Nup's Nakweede in Kayunga Campaigns https://allafrica.com/stories/202112130435.html" on All Africa, 12 December 2021.

Jay Samit photo

“Company mentoring programs are also a key tool in promoting diversity at the workplace.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Future Proofing You (2021)

Ralph Torres photo

“We just don't have the facility to give proper care for all of our patients (in the Northern Mariana Islands), and that's the reason why we have this medical referral program, to send our patients out.”

Ralph Torres (1979) an American Republican politician from Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands

Source: Ralph Torres (2021) cited in: " Torres: At least $10M needed for medical referral program https://www.postguam.com/news/cnmi/torres-at-least-10m-needed-for-medical-referral-program/article_8005ba4e-c681-11eb-bd3d-3f3499b70b2e.html" in The Guam Daily Post, 7 June 2021.

Stepan Bandera photo
David Letterman photo

“All right, that's pretty much all I got. The only thing I have left to do, for the last time on a television program: Thank you and good night.”

David Letterman (1947) American comedian and actor

Source: Final sign-off at end of final show, Late Night with David Letterman (20 May 2015).

Richard Dawkins photo

“In fact writing a computer program is a pretty good way to summarize knowledge about any set of rules.”

Source: Climbing Mount Improbable (1996), Chapter 2, “Silken Fetters” (p. 58)

Vladimir Zhirinovsky photo

“Unlike the left, we do not trot out any far-fetched or unachievable promises. Our program is straightforward and clear – there should not be any homeless, unemployed or hungry. This is the minimal goal, while the maximum goal is to make a major leap forward.”

Vladimir Zhirinovsky (1946–2022) Russian politician and political activist

"TASS exclusive: Zhirinovsky's first interview as presidential candidate" https://tass.com/politics/983699?utm_source=google.com&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google.com&utm_referrer=google.com (29 December 2017)

Dolores Huerta photo

“We've got to take the side of the people that are being oppressed. And if we can't do that, then we're not doing our job, because the people in that minority community or in that community are not going to have any faith in the medical program that is in there if you can't take their side.”

Dolores Huerta (1930) American labor leader

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

Dolores Huerta photo

“What we're doing is we're not only just giving good health care-fantastic health care-but we are training our own people to be able to do the health work and to administer the program.”

Dolores Huerta (1930) American labor leader

1974 speech, in Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995 by Deborah Gillan Straub

Joseph Campbell photo