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The experts on Islam who opened for business on 9/11 peddle their wares more feverishly, helped by clash-of-civilisation theorists and other intellectual robots of the cold war, which were programmed to think in binaries (us versus them, free versus unfree world, Islam versus the west) and to limit their lexicon to words such as "ideology", "threat" and "generational struggle".

They were programmed to think like a winner and maintain a positive attitude by quickly bouncing back from bad calls, bad breaks and mistakes made by them or their teammates.

"To realize, wow, because of pornography and Hollywood, I'm looking at a girl and not thinking she's as beautiful because I've been programmed to think this and that about women," said Garcia, a junior.

But, the designers agreed, that's just because people are programmed to think that way.

"Most people are programmed to think that to make money, you have to take the property a notch higher," Mr. McPhail said.

Our cars will drive us around – or conceivably refuse to go where they have been programmed to think we should not be going.

Years later, on his blog, Mr. Awlaki would compare Thomas Gradgrind, Charles Dickens's notoriously utilitarian headmaster in "Hard Times," "to some Muslim parents who are programmed to think that only medicine or engineering are worthy professions for their children".

I'm programmed to think of explicit sexual imagery as being transgressive, but I was startled to see how many people are open about their familiarity with the virtual playland that Ruff explores.

If the developmental psychologists are right, he is fascinated by supernatural entities and spaces because he, like all children, is programmed to think of people in terms of souls as well as bodies.

We've spent hundreds of years telling women that their gender means they are programmed to think in a certain manner: let's not now foist this ridiculousness onto men.

When volunteering anew for an army that has rejected her once already, Sister reflected: "Deep down I had thought myself unusual, perhaps maligned with some kind of unnatural antagonism or need for leadership, for wanting to act in a way I had been programmed to think was wrong".