Quotes About Automation

Despite thorough testing, good documentation, and solid automation, things go wrong. Deliveries are late. Unforeseen technical problems come up.

Just as woodworkers sometimes build jigs to guide the construction of complex pieces, programmers can write code that itself writes code.

For almost all of human history, tools were quite limited. They weren't everywhere; they were in specific places. Tools were in the field (agricultural tools) or in the kitchen (cooking tools) or in the toolshed (work tools). And while tools helped us do our work, they didn't work on their own. The dream of a tool that would work by itself was strictly the stuff of magic or fantasy—the sorcerer's apprentice's dream of a broom that would clean up by itself.

Maybe by the time she was a parent there would be automatic diaper-changers

I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

That's so often what it is with machinery: be somewhat in doubt and it carries the decision.

We are entering the Age of Awareness, marked by machine intelligence everywhere.

We want our movies instantly. We order our groceries at lunchtime and expect them to arrive in time for dinner. We punch up cars to deliver us to our whims. The largest companies in America, from Amazon to Uber to Facebook, want to fill the air with buzzing drones dropping from the skies whatever you want and more of it. Manna is now always on the delivery menu.

By any numerical measure, humanity is becoming rapidly less poor. But between half and two-thirds of people in the West have been treading water – at best – for a generation. Tens of millions of Westerners will struggle to keep their heads above the surface over the coming decades. The spread of automation, including artificial intelligence and remote intelligence, which some call the fourth industrial revolution, is still in its early stages.

in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Science fiction likes to depict a dystopia in which the robots have taken over. A less fantastical idea is that the robots will indeed take over. But it will be at the behest of a narrow elite of human masters.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) : is the study of how to make computers do things which, at the moment, people do better.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

I discovered everywhere female automations created by men. There was nothing of ourselves, and the little there was that rose up in protest immediately became material for their manufacturing.

Technology is useful only if it increases the avenues of employment rather than merely giving the machines and tools for enjoyment.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

The more you do it, the more automatic it becomes, and the less effort it takes.

A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.

I ran a 'loan modification machine.'

Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.

Imagine a world where everything that can be connected will be connected - where driverless cars talk to smart transportation networks and where wireless sensors can monitor your health and transmit data to your doctor. That's a snapshot of what the 5G world will look like.