“The bad news is that Iran wants to talk about everything except their nuclear program. They want to talk about regional cooperation, they want to talk about the sanctions issues, and it seems like the western powers want to talk about nothing more than the nuclear issue.” WantSeemsIssuesNewsProgramWesternNuclearIranCooperationSanctionsBad NewsRegional Cooperation Author:Reza Aslan
“I've noticed that just about every time I find a large program with known glitches that no one seems able to fix, that program is written in C and is likely written by a programming team in a remote location.” SeemsAbleKnownWrittenTeamProgramProgrammingLocationGlitches Author:Jerry Pournelle
“The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.” ThinkingSeemsPoetPureProgramGhostUselessMisledWordsworth Author:Katy Lederer
“While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.” NeedsSeemsLeftProtectTaxesProgramFocusedSpendingReformPreservesObsessedMore MoneyRestraintEntitlementMedicareOverlookedMedicaid Author:Fred Upton
“Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.” ThinkingWorldNeedsBelieveChildrenLongStillsStatesSeemsParentTermPrinciplesRolesSupportPolicyProgramFunctionDespiteLong TermExpertsVitalityReduction Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.” Has BeensSometimesSeemsOrderTurnsDecisionBusinessMistakeKnowingPathExampleProductsHugeProgramSellsEntrepreneurScaryOpeningMaking MistakesWiserHindsightMaking DecisionsBuyersScary ThingsWrong PathKnowing The Future Author:Tom Szaky
“Important thing about myth is that it's not just something that you believe, a myth is essentially a program for action. And unless you translate a mythical story, or a doctrine out of the church, into practical action, it just remains incomprehensible. Rather like the rules of a board game which seem very sort of dull and complicated and incomprehensible until you pick up the dice and start to play, when everything falls into place.” BelieveImportantPlayStoriesSeemsActionFallGamesChurchPicksProgramRemainsImportant ThingsComplicatedMythPracticalsDoctrineBoardsDullTranslateDiceFall Into PlaceBoard GamesEverything Falls Into Place Author:Karen Armstrong
“There seems to be a consistency, in that people who have had access to the Iranian program - people who actually have had boots on the ground and have been able to investigate and inspect the program - have consistently been saying these things.” PeopleHas BeensSeemsAbleProgramAccessBootsConsistentlyConsistencyIranian Author:Trita Parsi
“The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.” IfsWritingSeemsReadingEnjoyHoursFourSixProgramAptitudeReading And Writing Book:On Writing Source: On Writing
“The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.” PeopleNeedsWritingSeemsSchoolLevelsKnownClassPlansMiddlePolicyProducePoliticianBenefitsProgramBlindSpotsExcellentMiddle ClassRetirementUrgentSalaryEditsNanniesBlind SpotsHealth BenefitsUpper Middle Class Author:Judith Warner
“I used to think, "I can't go to these meetings because they'll make me believe in God. Make me go to church." I knew it wasn't right for me before I ever tried it. I was suspicious of anything outside my realm of experience. That same kind of attitude carries over into 12-step programs, because they are programs. There's this feeling that you don't need this bullshit, you can quit on your own. People that don't know anything about it seem to have a better idea. They haven't even been.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsBelieveKindI CanIdeasFeelingsSeemsUsedChurchAttitudeStepsHavensProgramMeetingsQuittingRealmsCarrieBelieve In GodBullshitSuspicious12 Step Author:Bucky Sinister
“I think that you could design a terrible logo for a good company with great people and they could build it into a great program. Alternatively you could design what seems to be a brilliant logo for people who are not smart or energetic or are incapable of associating with anything positive and it would become a terrible logo.” PeopleThinkingSeemsCompanyDesignTerribleSmartProgramBrilliantIncapableGreat PeopleEnergeticLogosGood Company Author:Michael Bierut
“A focus on people's health and well-being must be the core of family planning research and policy. This may seem self-evident, but the realities of program implementation in third world countries has often shown that the health and well-being of individuals is not a priority.” PeopleWorldWellsMaySelfCountryRealitySeemsIndividualFocusPolicyResearchProgramThirdsPrioritiesCorePlanningWell BeingEvidentThird WorldImplementationFamily PlanningThird World Countries Author:Ruth Simmons
“I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.” ThinkingWritingYearsHas BeensEnoughSeemsPastFictionCreativeProgramCreative WritingAmerican Poetry Author:Robert Morgan
“In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.” ImportantSeemsCompanyCasesEconomyProgramUsersInterfacesUser Interface Author:Linus Torvalds
“Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.” MindDoeSeemsLaughingHairReturnProgramLipsLovelyRitualWildlifeTossBitingMating Book:A Question of Attraction: A Novel Source: A Question of Attraction: A Novel
“Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.” PeopleThinkingLittlesMomentsSeemsPastRememberFantasyMinesReturnProgramComprehensiveProspectsRemembering The PastIceland Author:Edward Gorey
“We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors and races that are hurting today with high unemployment, but we seem to be more focused on how we can ram through this Senate a bill that would legalize millions and create an even more robust guest worker program. There are not enough jobs now. Give me a break.” NeedsGivingEnoughSeemsTodayJobsHurtRaceBreakMillionsColorCitizensProgramGive MeBillsWorkersFocusedImmigrationMinoritiesSenateGuestsUnemploymentRobustAmerican CitizensRams Author:Jeff Sessions