Programmes Quotes

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Martin Fowler

Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.36, Pearson Education

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I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

Tony Blair

Mass Destruction, Iraq, Doubt

Interview with Matt Peacock, www.abc.net.au. July 9, 2003.

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Our space programme has overcome many hurdles. At the same time it is one of the most cost effective programmes. This should make us proud.

Narendra Modi

Motivation, Space, Overcoming

Twitter post from Jun 29, 2014

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Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

Lance Armstrong

Sports, World, Sophisticated

Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Military, Years, Data

"UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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Our regular fitness programme means that the race lasting longer than others should not be a problem, but something you have to prepare for in Singapore is ensuring you always keep well-hydrated, as the heat and humidity can easily dehydrate you.

Romain Grosjean

Mean, Race, Heat And Humidity

"Singapore GP: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - Q&A". Interview, www.crash.net. September 15, 2013.

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A major cause of the Roman Empire's decline, after six centuries of world dominance was its replacement of stone aqueducts by lead pipes for the transport and supply of drinking water. Roman engineers, the best in the world, turned their fellow citizens into cripples. Today our own "best and brightest," with the best of intentions, achieve the same end through childhood vaccination programmes yielding the modern scourges of hyperactivity, learning disabilities, autism, appetite disorders, and impulsive violence.

Harris L Coulter

Drinking, Aqueducts, Autism

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(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Margaret Thatcher

Failure, Destiny, Europe

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This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason.

Martin Bashir

Two, People, Literature

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Do we really require so many gardening programmes, makeover programmes or celebrity chefs?

David Attenborough

Gardening, Television, Chef

"David Attenborough criticises BBC schedule". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2008.

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We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now pitifully small and has been reduced in size by the current Government, seeking economies to finance its social programmes. Fine while there is no threat to our security. But what use would schools and hospitals be if we could not protect our imports?

John Keegan

School, Government, Sea

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On the surface the avant garde as a whole seems united primarily in terms of what they are against: the rejection of social institutions and established artistic conventions, or antagonism towards the public (as representative of the existing order). By contrast any positive programme tends to be claimed as exclusive property by isolated and even mutually antagonistic sub-groups. So modern art appears fragmented and sectarian, defined as much by manifestos as imaginative work.

C. D. Innes

Art, Order, Rejection

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That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.

M.C. Beaton

Reality, Television, Trouble

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I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

O.R. Melling

Art, Canada, Degrees

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It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

Charlie Rose

Thinking, Class, Ideas

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Keeping technology at the forefront, we need to further speed up our defence programme & keep pace with the world.

Narendra Modi

Motivation, Technology, India

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Today, India's cooking gas subsidy is the world's largest Cash Transfer Programme.

Narendra Modi

Cooking, India, World

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Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the remotest family to the ordinary. India's space programme is a perfect example of our vision of Scale, Speed and Skill.

Narendra Modi

Communication, Technology, Skills

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The evidence would suggest that there are some great alternative certification programmes and some lousy ones. There are some wonderful traditional education schools, and some that aren't so effective. What's important is less the pathway than the impact on students.

Wendy Kopp

School, Impact, Important

Source: www.economist.com

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Now in the States if you look at the TV, you see the advertisements, the TV programmes, the pop videos, and the movies, they're all the same style. I think it's very condescending to the audience to assume they only have a three second attention span and so they don't leave anything on the screen for any longer. I don't understand that.

Jim Jarmusch

Thinking, Style, Video

Source: louderthanwar.com

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As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

Robert Darnton

Book, Historical, President

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The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.

Imre Lakatos

Science, Achievement, Progress

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If everything on television is, without exception, part of a low-calorie (or even no-calorie) diet, then what good is it complaining about the adverts? By their worthlessness, they at least help to make the programmes around them seem of a higher level.

Jean Baudrillard

Complaining, Television, Levels

Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.102, Verso

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If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

James Joyce

Politics, Language, Exile

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Willpower is the fuel that runs human life; Like a driver in a computer application, Or Operating System in cyber programme, Willpower works life to performances; Life is deadwood; life, robust carrion, Without willpower in bright flame within.

Praveen Kumar

Running, Flames, Fuel

Praveen Kumar “Celestial Glow”, AUTHOR

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