Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined examined reduced to essentials and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions from the detergent Mom always used to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

We live trapped between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined when the record of performances have been reviewed Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

An unexamined faith is not worth having for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty or terrestrial virtue to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot and all that we would not see.