“After months of negotiations, Iran has finally agreed to reduce its nuclear weapons program. Which was great until Putin showed up and said, 'Hi, I'm here about Craigslist ad for nukes.'” SaidMonthsWeaponsProgramNuclearIranAdsNuclear WeaponsNegotiationPutinNukesCraigslist Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.” KindHelpingRunningWantedTermChurchReligiousRightsStudentsCollegeSummerProgramTestsUniversityCommittedJewCivil RightsChicagoRelevantAdsEnergeticCampusKansasOrganizerCollege StudentsPresbyteriansCollege Campus Author:Sara Paretsky
“Google's AdWords, they allow you to bid on words that people will type into the search engine, and they cost more or less. For example, I think mortgage refinancing can cost - now, it's probably hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. So, in other words, they are allowing you to bid on what people are going to type, and that is the AdWords program. So you own certain terms, and then your ads show up as opposed to someone else's.” PeopleThinkingShowsCertainTermExampleTypeCostProgramDollarsAllowingEnginesAdsGoogleMortgageSearch Engine Author:Tim Wu
“The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence.” Has BeensTelevisionProgramMereAdsFencePulpBillboardsBackdrop Author:Tom Shales
“The Work is merely four questions; it's not even a thing. It has no motive, no strings. It's nothing without your answers. These four questions will join any program you've got and enhance it. Any religion you have - they'll enhance it. If you have no religion, they will bring you joy. And they'll burn up anything that isn't true for you. They'll burn through to the reality that has always been waiting.” IfsRealityJoyWaitingAnswersFourProgramMotiveStringsAdsKatie Author:Byron Katie
“The program is only the excuse to get you to watch the advertising. Without the ads there would be no programs. Advertising is the true content of television and if it does not remain so, then advertisers will cease to support the medium, and television will cease to exist as the popular entertainment it presently is.” IfsDoeWould BeWatchesSupportTelevisionProgramEntertainmentExcuseCeaseMediumsAdvertisingAdsAdvertisersPopular Entertainment Author:Jerry Mander
“Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.” CommonHalfProgramComplicatedProgrammingAdsBugsComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageImplementationLisp Author:Philip Greenspun